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4th

4th

353 1.0
Coming after the third in a list or on a calendar
  • adjective
  • /fɔrθ/
: cuarto
  • In the race, she finished in 4th place, just missing the podium.
  • 4th grade
  • 4th Circuit
  • 4th century

Like trying to rally to get a fourth Jackass movie underway.

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Examples

  • The target group for this study was 4th grade students for the 2012-2013 school year in a Midwestern elementary school.

    Academic text (2015)

  • After I get through, I'll meet you at the restaurant at 4th Street.

    Scarface (1932)

  • So, you know, call it fourth quarter plus January.

    Tom Ferry

  • So this this, this one is the is the fourth most similar phase and so on.

  • Grace church is on... 10th street and 4th Avenue.

    Push (2006)

  • I just left 28th and Francis, I'm walking south to 4th Street.

    You Are Here (2011)

  • The big question now is what the Supreme Court will think of the 4th Circuit's legal handiwork.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The participants were 21 undergraduate music education majors, all in their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year of study.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The student responses in this research ranged in grade level from 4th grade to upper-division college students.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Forty-five percent of 3rd and 4th graders could not give an example of at least one aerobic activity.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

fourth
vs4th
∞ 1.0

Being in position number four in an order

is written as a numeral form rather than as a word
quaternary
vs4th
1 8.0

Fourth in a series, after the third and before the fifth

is the basic ordinal for normal counting rather than a technical term

Surface Forms

4th positive

Morphology

4th = four (transparent) = 4 + th

The ordinal suffix '-th' is a standard and transparent transformation of the numeral 'four'.

Etymology

The word 4th is just the number four plus the small ending -th, an old English ending that turns a number into an order word. So 4th means 'after the third' or 'in fourth place'.