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FOUR-YEAR-OLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does four-year-old mean?
• FOUR-YEAR-OLD (adjective)
The adjective FOUR-YEAR-OLD has 1 sense:
1. four years of age
Familiarity information: FOUR-YEAR-OLD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Four years of age
Similar:
immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
Context examples
Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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