Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having four equal sides and four right angles; square.
- adj. Marked by firm, unwavering conviction or expression; forthright: a foursquare refusal to yield.
- adv. In a forthright manner; squarely.
- n. A child's game in which each of four players stands in one of four boxes drawn on the ground in a two-by-two grid and must bounce a ball into another player's box without holding the ball or stepping out of bounds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having four sides and four angles equal; quadrangular: as, a foursquare altar.
- n. A figure with four equal sides.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having four equal sides; square.
- adj. by extension Solid, robust.
- adj. cryptography Pertaining to a four-square cipher.
- adj. architecture, US A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
- adj. Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- n. Alternative form of four square.
- n. cryptography a four-square cipher
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having four sides and four equal angles.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a square position
- adj. characterized by firm and unwavering conviction
- adv. with firmness and conviction; without compromise
- n. (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
Etymologies
- From four + square. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think foursquare is the Pownce of LBS, early adopters are jumping on it but no one will end up using it.”
“Yes, all politics are local and since foursquare is a hyper-local application, it would make sense for politicians to use the too.”
“That, combined with its ease of us by both consumers and businesses, make foursquare is allowing for phenomenal growth following tremendous success at South By South West. foursquare has set a goal of 1 million users by April 16, which is Foursquare Day.”
“If you check into 'foursquare' - every third check in, you get half-price appetizers here," says Drew Topping, of Piper's Pub.”
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“i hear that foursquare is also highly regarded by google in their local search rankings?”
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“Heather wrote about a website called foursquare where you can check-in to different places with your cell phone and earn badges and achievements for trying out new venues in the city where you reside.”
“Harvard natives and visitors will be able to explore the historic expanse of with greater ease as a result of a partnership with a mobile social networking application called foursquare, the University announced on Tuesday. the first location-based social networking tool to be implemented at Harvard venues in cities around the world.”
“Jerusalem lying "foursquare" (Re 21: 16), represent world-wide extension.”
“Their latest App named after the popular playground game "foursquare" is a refreshing combination of friend finder + social networker + video game.”
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“The word "foursquare" has been used 4,140 times in articles indexed in Google Blog Search - but surely many more times on Twitter, which doesn't offer a long-term index.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foursquare’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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Toss up
toss up, even, tied, neck and neck, deadlock, parity, fifty-fifty, equilibrium, balance, equal, fungible, across-the-board and 16 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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Poison
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Poison.
tallowcatcher, spar, landbar, insouciant, dandle, spatulate, tarpaulin, front, grump, dwarrow, gawp, wheelhouse and 32 more...
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states of being
nescience, foursquare, free, bondage, hopeful, cilantrophobe, melancholic, plaintive, staid, luminous
Tweets
Looking for tweets for foursquare.
whichbe This might be my favorite game from middle school. Dec 11, 2008