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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 3 + 1.
  2. noun The fourth in a set or sequence.
  3. noun Something having four parts, units, or members, such as a musical quartet or a four-cylinder engine.
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  • In announcing the decision, which came into effect yesterday, MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said the four were appointed because they were currently serving at federal level and thus were able to voice the people's needs more effectively.
  • "We have four testamonies, and one of the four is a testamony against war," she says. —  The Westmount Examiner
  • The U.S. Central Command confirmed that one of the four was a U.S. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • In the latest Afghan violence, a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed four American troops Sunday, confirmed that one of the four was a U.S. airman assigned to the 755th Air Expeditionary Group. roadside bomb blast Sunday that killed a civilian and wounded two others, said Najibullah Khan, a police spokesman. suicide bomber on foot targeted a NATO patrol but killed two Afghan civilians, said —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • During World War II, when peace and stability were shattered by acts of physical aggression initiated by the axis powers, Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech on what he referred to as the four freedoms. —  A New Dark Age Is Dawning
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fēower; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English four, fowr, fower, feower, from Anglo-Saxon feówer (in some compounds fyther-, fither-) = Old Saxon fiuwar, fiur, fior = OFries. fiuwer, fiower, fior, NFries. fjouwer = Dutch vier = Middle Low German vēr, Low German veer = Old High German fior, fier, MHG. vier, German vier = Icelandic fjōrir =Old Swedish fiugur, Swedish fyra = Danish fire = Gothic (Moesogothic) fidwor = Welsh pedwar = Gaelic ceithir= Irish cethir= L. quattuor, quatuor (whence Italian quattro = Spanish cuatro = Portuguese quatro = F. quatre) = Oscan petur = Greek τέτταρες, τέσσ, σ1αρες dial.τέτορες,πέτταρες,πέτορες,πίσυρες = Old Bulgarian chetyri = Russian chetvero = Lithuanian keturi, Lettish chetri = Sanskrit chatur, chatvār, four.
 

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