four-year-old


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Adj.1.four-year-old - four years of age
young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
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four

(foː) noun
1. the number or figure 4.
2. the age of 4.
adjective
1. 4 in number.
2. aged 4.
four-
having four (of something). a four-man team.
fourth noun
1. one of four equal parts.
2. (also adjective) the last of four (people, things etc); the next after the third.
ˈfoursome noun
a group of four people, especially for playing games, eg golf. We'll play in a foursome.
ˈfour-year-old noun
a person or animal that is four years old.
adjective
(of a person, animal or thing) that is four years old.
on all fours
on hands and knees. He went up the steep path on all fours.
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References in classic literature ?
Now he was not even the same as when she had left him; he was still further from the four-year-old baby, more grown and thinner.
Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June, for they did not care to be torn to pieces; and the young two-, three-, and four-year-old seals who had not begun housekeeping went inland about half a mile through the ranks of the fighters and played about on the sand dunes in droves and legions, and rubbed off every single green thing that grew.
The three- and four-year-old holluschickie romped down from Hutchinson's Hill crying: "Out of the way, youngsters!
"Head off that drove of four-year-olds. The men ought to skin two hundred to-day, but it's the beginning of the season and they are new to the work.
Just then Jamie came back, and Rose understood the smile, for his dolly proved to be a pretty four-year-old little girl, who trotted in as fast as her fat legs would carry her, and making straight for the shells, scrambled up an armful, saying, with a laugh that showed her little white teeth
"The Skip of the Tip-Toe-Hop, a Romance of the Middle Ages, by the celebrated author of `Tittle-Tol-Tan,' to appear in monthly parts; a great rush; don't all come together." All this they read with saucer eyes, and erect and primitive curiosity, and with unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella -- without any improvement, that I can see, in the pronunciation, or accent, or emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral.
MARDAN -- The police arrested two neighbourer women involved in kidnapping/murder of four-year-old Iqra.
KARACHI -- Favourite four-year-old bay colt Determination lived up to his reputation by lifting the IndepenAdence Day Cup in the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.
Summary: Bastar (Chhattisgarh) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Two people, including a four-year-old, were killed while five were injured on Thursday in two house collapse incidents in Bastar district following flooding after incessant downpour.
Four people, including a four-year-old boy, were injured when the car they were travelling in left the A5 and hit a tree.
KASUR -- The body of four-year-old boy reported missing a day prior from the city's Kot Radha Kishan area has been recovered from a buffalo shed, police said Sunday.
OKARA -- aA couple along with their four-year-old child were crushed to death when their bike collided with a speeding car here on Okara-Depalpur Road.