foursquare

adj
/ˈfɔːskwɛː/UK

Etymology

From Middle English foure square; equivalent to four + square.

  1. inherited from foure square

Definitions

  1. Having four equal sides

    Having four equal sides; square.

    • From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.
    • Out there in the dark the city looked foursquare and massive.
  2. Solid, robust.

    • It is surprising to find white wine of apparently low acidity keeping well at all. Yet at ten years (a good age for it today) it has a haunting combination of foursquare breadth and depth with some delicate, intriguing, lemony zest.
    • Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.
  3. Pertaining to a four-square cipher.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

    2. Alternative form of four square.

    3. A four-square cipher.

    4. A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually…

      A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.

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