fourth
About 43.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective The ordinal form of the number four.
- noun The person or thing in the fourth position.
- noun A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
- noun The fourth gear of an engine.
- noun A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
- noun One sixtieth of a third or tierce.
- verb To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
Similar words
quaternary one-fourth quartern quarter ordinal fourth part twenty-five percent four fifth sixth
Often followed by
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Word family
4th fourthly fourths the Fourth the fourth
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