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fourfold

UK/ˈfɔːfəʊld//ˈfɔɹ.foʊld/

fourfold adjective: four times as great; quadruple.

Adjective

fourfold (not comparable)

  1. Four times as great; quadruple.
  2. Comprised of four individual members.
    • Most pupils have a fourfold object in studying a language; they wish to be able to read and write, to speak and to understand it.1895, [Charles Hardy], The Aural System […], page 5

Adverb

fourfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of four.
    • And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:6
    Synonyms:
    quadruply

Verb

fourfold (third-person singular simple present fourfolds, present participle fourfolding, simple past and past participle fourfolded)

  1. To increase to four times as much; to multiply by four.

Noun

fourfold (plural fourfolds)

  1. An algebraic variety of degree 4.
    • Our main application is to the classification of Poisson brackets on Fano fourfolds.2015, Brent Pym, “Elliptic singularities on log symplectic manifolds and Feigin--Odesskii Poisson brackets”, in arXiv

fourfold meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

fourfold in Hindi

four times as great
चौगुना caugunā, चौहरा cauhrā, चतुर्गुण caturguṇ
by a factor of four
चहुरा cahurā, चौघरा caughrā, पाव pāv, चौगुना caugunā
increase to four times as much
चौगुना करना caugunā karnā

fourfold in Tamil

நாற்றி

fourfold in Urdu

four times as great
چوگنا caugunā

fourfold in Telugu

four times as great
నాలుగింతలు nālugintalu
More languagesFewer languages
fourfold in Punjabi
ਚੌਗੁਣਾ cauguṇā
fourfold in Sanskrit
चतुर्गुण cáturguṇa
fourfold in Tagalog
makaapat

Synonyms of fourfold

Forms of fourfold

Adjective
alternative formfour-fold
Verb
third-person singular presentfourfolds
present participlefourfolding
past participlefourfolded
pastfourfolded
Noun
pluralfourfolds

Origin of fourfold

From Middle English fourfold, fourefold, from Old English fēowerfeald. Equivalent to four + -fold. Cognate with Dutch viervoud, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍂𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (fidurfalþs).

Words formed from fourfold

Questions about fourfold

What does fourfold mean?
Fourfold means four times as great; quadruple.
What is fourfold in Hindi?
Fourfold in Hindi is चौगुना (caugunā), चौहरा (cauhrā), चतुर्गुण (caturguṇ). See Fourfold meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fourfold?
Fourfold can be an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fourfold?
Fourfold is pronounced /ˈfɔːfəʊld/ (UK).

Words near fourfold in the dictionary

  1. fourdriniers
  2. foure
  3. foureyed
  4. fourflusher
  5. fourflushers
  6. fourfold
  7. fourfolded
  8. fourfolding
  9. fourfoldness
  10. fourfolds
  11. fourfooted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fourfold (page history and authors); fourfold (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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