Plural of four; the number 4 repeated or multiple instances, or a group of four people.
From Old English 'feower,' from Proto-Germanic roots. The 's' plural form is regular modern English.
The number 4 appears in unexpected places: four chambers in hearts, four limbs in most vertebrates, and four nucleotide bases in DNA—nature seems to love quartets.
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