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Definition of Foursquare

1. Noun. (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon. "You can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"

2. Adjective. Characterized by firm and unwavering conviction. "A foursquare refusal to yield"

3. Adverb. In a square position. "The building stood foursquare"

4. Adverb. With firmness and conviction; without compromise. "Dealt straightforwardly with all issues"

Definition of Foursquare

1. a. Having four sides and four equal angles.

Definition of Foursquare

1. Noun. (alternative form of four square) ¹

2. Noun. (cryptography) a four-square cipher ¹

3. Adjective. Pertaining to forthrightness, honesty; unyielding ethics. ¹

4. Adjective. (cryptography) Pertaining to a (w four-square cipher). ¹

5. Adjective. (architecture) (American English) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms, one of which is usually a stair hall; w:Foursquare house ¹

6. Adjective. Pertaining to the (w International Church of the Foursquare Gospel). ¹

7. Adjective. ¹

8. Adjective. (wine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foursquare

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foursquare

fourposter fourposters fourragere fourrageres fourragère fourragères fourrier fourriers fours fourscore

fourses foursies foursome reel foursomes foursquare (current term) fourteen fourteen hundred fourteener fourteeners fourteenfold

fourteenish fourteenness fourteenpence fourteenpenny fourteens fourteenth fourteenthly fourteenths fourth

Literary usage of Foursquare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1907)
"THE foursquare CHRISTIAN ; or, The Fourfold Doctrine of the First and Great Commandment. By REV. EP WHALLON, Ph.D., DD Cincinnati: Monfort & Co. ..."

2. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"48:20. ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare Dan! ... l.the altar shall be foursquare : 16. foursquare it shall be (being) doubled ; 2.foursquare ..."

3. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"... five for the Wirds of the one side of the tabernacle, long, and five cubits broad: the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof ..."

4. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based by William De Burgh (1860)
"48:20. ye shall utter the holy oblation foursquare Oanl 1: 2.and the fourth ... l.the altar shall be foursquare : 16.foursquare it shall be (being) doubled ..."

5. The Unitarian edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1889)
"The city lieth foursquare.—Rev. v м. 1C. That is said of the city John saw ... "The city lieth foursquare." How is it with your structure of character? ..."

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