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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." [syn: quartet, quartette, foursome]
2: the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a. a group of four persons or things ; quartet b. two couples 2. a golf match in which two players compete against two others with players on each side taking turns playing one ball; broadly any golf match involving four players

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a group of four persons. 2 a golf match between two pairs with partners playing the same ball.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foursome Four"some, a. [Four + 2d -some.] Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foursome Four"some, n. (Golf) A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(foursomes) A foursome is a group of four people or things. The London-based foursome are set to release their fourth single this month. N-COUNT-COLL

Moby Thesaurus

Little Joe, biquadrate, bout, contest, decathlon, double-header, doubles, event, four, four-part diaphony, game, games of chance, go, match, meet, pentathlon, play, play-off, quad, quadrangle, quadrature, quadrennium, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, race, rectangle, runoff, singles, sport, square, square dance, squaring, tetrad, tetragon, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody, threesome, twosome