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4th

4th

353 1.0
Coming after the third in a list or on a calendar
  • adjective
  • /fɔrθ/
translation icon : 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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'.