Skip to main content
four-year-old

four-year-old

70 1.0
A person, animal, or thing that is four years old
  • noun
  • /ˈfɔrˌjɪrˈoʊld/
translation icon : niño de cuatro años
  • Angela lost her husband about nine years ago and she had a four year old daughter that she had to take care of.
  • a four-year-old child
  • a four-year-old boy
  • a four-year-old girl

Imagine you are teaching a four year old to read.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • All right, well, the father is an artist, they have a four-year-old daughter and they love having picnics.

  • My four-year-old daughter loves Kurt and Blaine so much that she wants them to be her two dads.

  • Imagine you are teaching a four year old to read.

  • This baby would be four years old today.

  • You were four years old.

  • So I think overall from a four year old, it's really, really bright and colourful.

  • A four year old called Oliver, a nine month old called Iris.

  • I have a four-year-old daughter.

  • The second center that participated in this study, Ferry Day Head Start Center, enrolled four-year-old students only.

    Academic text (2013)
  • My neighbor has a four-year-old son who loves to play in the park.

Synonyms

child
vsfour-year-old
1.0

A young person who is not yet an adult, often a son or daughter

is specific to someone at one exact year of age rather than generally young

How Old

adult
103 1.0
four-year-old
70 1.0
three year old
  • Jargon
12 3.9
two-year-old
80 1.4
yearling
8 6.5
foal
14 1.0

Surface Forms

four-year-old singular

Morphology

four-year-old = four-year-old (transparent) = four + year + old

The noun is a straightforward conversion of the adjective 'four-year-old', whose meaning is directly compositional from 'four', 'year', and 'old'.

Etymology

Four-year-old is made of three simple parts: four, year, and old, which together mean 'four years old'. So, it describes a person, animal, or thing that has lived for four years.