fourth
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- noun
- /fɔrθ/
- It's the fourth of July.
Examples
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She finished in fourth place in the race after a strong start.
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My wife and I would like to invite you to a fourth of July party tonight at our house.
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We have a fourth chair, Ray.
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And finally, there was a fourth reason we did this.
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Three points determine a plane, and a fourth is one too many.
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Still, it levels out at about a fourth of the peak rate.
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At least one fourth of those listed were women!
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Besides money, health, and religion, time is the fourth pillar of the things that drive us.
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I was fourth in my class, and he hired a guy from the bottom three-fourths.
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Manchester City, the defending Premier League champion, lost at Ajax, a team tied for fourth in the Dutch league.
Blog text (11)
Synonyms
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Coming after the third in a list or on a calendar
Compounds
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A national holiday in the United States that celebrates the Declaration of Independence of 1776
- Specialized
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An extra dimension beyond length, width and height often used for time
- Literature
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News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power
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A small space in the brain that holds spinal fluid and lets it flow to the spinal cord
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8.5
A last stomach compartment in animals like cows and sheep that digests food
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A 1215 meeting of Catholic church leaders that set important church rules and beliefs
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A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople
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A nerve that controls a top eye muscle and helps the eye look down
A meeting of church leaders in 869–870 that condemned Photius and helped cause the split between eastern and western churches
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A very short musical sound equal to one sixty-fourth of a whole note
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An axiom in Euclidean geometry that all right angles are equal
A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fourth comes from the number four plus the old ending -th, which turns a number into an order. So fourth means 'the one in position number four'.