Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - four number

1 4 2 four o'clock  (I'll meet you just after four, okay?) 3 a group of four people or things  (The boxes were stacked in fours. | make up a four (=complete a group of 4 people))  (Will you make up a four for a game of cards?)  (- compare foursome) 4 on all fours supporting your body with your hands and knees  (Billy was down on all fours on the ice.) 5 from the four corners of the earth/world from places or countries that are very far away from each other  (People gathered from the four corners of the earth for the ecology convention.) 6 four on the floor AmE if a car has four on the floor, it has four gears worked by a gear lever 7 a long narrow boat rowed in races by four people 8 a coach and four a carriage pulled by four horses  (- see also four ply ply2, be scattered to the four winds scatter (3)) - fourth number