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[ fawr-fohld, fohr- ] / ˈfɔrˌfoʊld, ˈfoʊr- /
adjectivecomprising four parts or members. four times as great or as much. Origin of fourfoldbefore 1000; Middle English foure fald,Old English feowerfealdum.See four, -fold Words nearby fourfoldfour-eyed fish, four-eyed opossum, four-eyes, four flush, fourflusher, fourfold, fourfold block, fourfold purchase, four-footed, four-four time, four freedoms Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fourfoldHer basic argument, though it takes some work to decipher, is fourfold. Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme|Brandy Zadrozny|October 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST The stock has risen more than fourfold since its low of July 2011 and has nearly tripled so far in 2012. Pulte’s Amazing 2012 Performance Shows Housing Is Back||December 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST And as it thundered, the three others followed, shaking in fourfold earthquake the dully responsive earth. Taras Bulba and Other Tales|Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol But the linkage held, and closer and closer Stevens drove the fourfold menace of his frightful dirigible bombs. Spacehounds of IPC|Edward Elmer Smith
The outlay of money necessary for her musical education would have been great, but the returns would surely have been fourfold. A House Party with the Tucker Twins|Nell Speed In a fourfold table, the value of chi-square (14.7) is significant and indicates that the frequencies are not proportional. The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches|Louis M. Roth That this may be accomplished by following the fourfold way to Nirvana. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1|Various
British Dictionary definitions for fourfold
adjectiveequal to or having four times as many or as much composed of four parts adverbby or up to four times as many or as much Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |