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English
Etymology
From Middle English foure square; equivalent to four + square.
Pronunciation
Adjective
foursquare (comparative more foursquare, superlative most foursquare)
- Having four equal sides; square.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 41: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.
- (by extension) Solid, robust.
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire […].
1983, Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's modern encyclopedia of wine: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.
1999, Tom Stevenson, Christie's world encyclopedia of champagne and sparkling wine:Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.
- (cryptography) Pertaining to a four-square cipher.
- Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Translations
Noun
foursquare (uncountable)
- Alternative form of four square
- (cryptography) A four-square cipher.
- (architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.