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foursquare
[fawr-skwair, fohr-]
adjective
consisting of four corners and four right angles; square.
a solid, foursquare building.
firm; steady; unswerving.
He maintained a foursquare position in the controversy.
forthright; frank; blunt.
a foursquare presentation of the company's financial condition.
adverb
without equivocation; frankly; forthrightly.
noun
a square.
foursquare
/ ˌɔːˈɛə /
adverb
squarely; firmly
adjective
solid and strong
forthright; honest
a rare word for square
Other Word Forms
- foursquarely adverb
- foursquareness noun
- ˌڴdzܰˈܲ adverb
- ˌڴdzܰˈܲԱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of foursquare1
Example Sentences
Biden offered foursquare support for the union, taking the unprecedented step for a sitting president of walking the picket line with them at a GM factory in Michigan in September.
The painting’s rich detail and foursquare frontality all but command attention.
And yet Dodd manages to give this picture a foursquare, almost archetypal quality.
But her 1957 painted aluminum “12 Concentric Circles,” with its openwork curves spinning off into space, is a departure from the foursquare Constructivist model set by much geometric work of the period.
I don’t recall ever hearing such a foursquare interpretation of the Largo theme, a tune meant to evoke Black spirituals that became more familiar as the melody of “Goin’ Home.”
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