four times

1. 1.

   by a factor of four

   “the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years”

   Synonymsfourfold

Questions about four times

What does four times mean?

four times means "by a factor of four".

What is another word for four times?

Close synonyms include fourfold. 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 times a common word?

four times is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.