Get to know Quatre better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Quatre meaning
A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
Using Quatre
- The main meaning on this page is: A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
- In the example corpus, quatre often appears in combinations such as: quatre bras.
Context around Quatre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quatre
- In this selection, "quatre" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, des, galeries, vingt, nations, bras and saisons stand out and add context to how "quatre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4 light quatre foiled windows and collège des quatre nations the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quatre" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quatre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gold for École des Quatre-Vents student! (7 words)
To the sides are blind arcading, remains of 14th-century paintings and numerous stone benches above which are innovatory large 4-light quatre-foiled windows. (25 words)
Napoleon, with the reserves, made a late start on 17 June and joined Ney at Quatre Bras at 13:00 to attack Wellington's army but found the position empty. (30 words)
Still decked out in lavish costumes but with a couple of accoutrements in hand, the company returned to the stage for Entrée des quatre Nations dans la cour d’Hébé and stayed for the remainder of the suite. (38 words)
Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out "seventeen seventy-six", and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled "vingt-quatre.. (37 words)
Ney, meanwhile, found the crossroads of Quatre Bras lightly held by the Prince of Orange, who repelled Ney's initial attacks but was gradually driven back by overwhelming numbers of French troops. (32 words)
Gold for École des Quatre-Vents student! (7 words)
Example sentences (8)
On Saturday around 5 p.m., a 25-year-old man and his spouse arrived at the store in the Galeries Quatre-Saisons shopping centre, around 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
Still decked out in lavish costumes but with a couple of accoutrements in hand, the company returned to the stage for Entrée des quatre Nations dans la cour d’Hébé and stayed for the remainder of the suite.
Gold for École des Quatre-Vents student!
Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out "seventeen seventy-six", and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled "vingt-quatre..
Napoleon, with the reserves, made a late start on 17 June and joined Ney at Quatre Bras at 13:00 to attack Wellington's army but found the position empty.
Ney, meanwhile, found the crossroads of Quatre Bras lightly held by the Prince of Orange, who repelled Ney's initial attacks but was gradually driven back by overwhelming numbers of French troops.
To the sides are blind arcading, remains of 14th-century paintings and numerous stone benches above which are innovatory large 4-light quatre-foiled windows.
Under the influence of the Destouches family, at the age of twelve d'Alembert entered the Jansenist Collège des Quatre-Nations (the institution was also known under the name "Collège Mazarin").
Common combinations with quatre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: