Definition of Foursome

1. Noun. Four people considered as a unit. "The foursome teed off before 9 a.m."

Exact synonyms: Quartet, Quartette
Generic synonyms: Assemblage, Gathering
Specialized synonyms: Quadrumvirate

2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.

Definition of Foursome

1. a. Consisting of four; requiring four participants.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Foursome

1. Noun. A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two. ¹

2. Noun. A fourgie, sex between four people ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foursome

1. a group of four [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foursome

fourplay
fourplex
fourplexes
fourposter
fourposters
fourragere
fourrageres
fourragère
fourragères
fourrier
fourriers
fours
fourscore
fourses
foursies
foursome reel
foursomes
foursquare
fourteen
fourteen hundred
fourteener
fourteeners
fourteenfold
fourteenish
fourteenness
fourteenpence
fourteenpenny
fourteens
fourteenth

Literary usage of Foursome

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

1. The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon (1908)
"CHAPTER XVII ON foursomeS The four-ball foursome—Its inferiority to the old-fashioned" game—The case of the long-handicap man—Confusion on the greens—The ..."

2. Present-day Golf by George Duncan, Bernard Darwin (1921)
"The Four-Ball Match and the foursome To any golfer who has been properly brought ... But the foursome must come first." Yes, I agree with him, the foursome ..."

3. Cap and Gown in Prose: Short Sketches Selected from Undergraduate by R. L. Paget (1900)
"... After talking the matter over, we have both decided to say no. Yours, " EDITH AND MADGE." LILLIAN S. THROOP. The Stanford Sequoia. A Fortunate foursome. ..."

4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1906)
"AN ARMY AND NAVY foursome. By T. DYKES. are still a few men in the golfing shires of the Frith of Clyde who remember Captain Timbrel, RN If not by his name ..."

5. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"... and his associates went to the right, the opposite direction of the apartment. The fearsome foursome left their blue and white and headed after ..."

6. Golfers Magazine by United States Golf Association, Western Golf Association (1908)
"W. J Patterson 16- 1 up- mixed foursome. Miss R. Reed and WG Page. ... Mixed foursome, Mrs. CR Henderson and AB Nicholis 107-5-102 May 23. — Handicap. ..."

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