four-in-hand

Questions about four-in-hand

What does four-in-hand mean?

four-in-hand means "a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in four-in-hand?

four-in-hand has 3 syllables: fou-r-in--hand. The stress falls on "fou".

What is another word for four-in-hand?

Close synonyms include coach, coach-and-four. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is four-in-hand a common word?

four-in-hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.