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fourth

fourth

1.0
Being in position number four in an order
  • adjective
  • /fɔrθ/
translation icon : cuarto
  • I need to go to the fourth floor.
  • fourth grade
  • fourth year
  • fourth-grade students

But no second or fourth clown from the left, Herb.

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Examples

  • And on our third or fourth date, we went to dinner.

  • And I think this is his fourth book, OK.

  • OK, so second time on this one, fourth time in total.

  • It's probably like the third or fourth day that I was there.

  • You know, the fourth thing is trust.

  • But tell me, does the fourth piece taste as good as the first?

  • The Mind Stone is the fourth of the Infinity Stones to show up in the last few years.

  • This is the fourth box of my favorites.

  • For one thing, I've known kids as young as fourth grade who read my books.

    Academic text (2011)
  • This is my fourth attempt to pass the driving test.

Synonyms

4th
vsfourth
353 1.0

Coming after the third in a list or on a calendar

is the spelled-out everyday term rather than the numeric symbol
quaternary
vsfourth
1 8.0

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

is the neutral common word used in everyday ordering

Compounds

79 1.4

A national holiday in the United States that celebrates the Declaration of Independence of 1776

12 1.0

One of four equal parts, for example of a cake or pie

11 3.1

About the fourth and last year of high school or college

fourth dimension
  • Specialized
4 8.5

An extra dimension beyond length, width and height often used for time

fourth estate
  • Literature
4 5.7

News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power

fourth ventricle
  • Specialized
1 6.8

A small space in the brain that holds spinal fluid and lets it flow to the spinal cord

fourth power
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A number multiplied by itself four times

A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople

1 9.9

A 1215 meeting of Catholic church leaders that set important church rules and beliefs

1 1.0

One of four equal pieces of something

Euclid's fourth axiom
  • Specialized
9.9

An axiom in Euclidean geometry that all right angles are equal

A meeting of church leaders in 869–870 that condemned Photius and helped cause the split between eastern and western churches

fourth cranial nerve
  • Specialized
7.0

A nerve that controls a top eye muscle and helps the eye look down

fourth deck
  • Specialized
7.4

A low floor on a large ship for storing goods or where crew sleep

A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions

Fourth Reich
  • Offensive
9.9

A feared future German state that continues Nazi ideas

fourth stomach
  • Specialized
8.5

A last stomach compartment in animals like cows and sheep that digests food

Poor teaching in schools that does not prepare students

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

sixty-fourth note
  • Specialized
7.7

A very short musical sound equal to one sixty-fourth of a whole note

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

Surface Forms

fourth positive

Morphology

fourth = four (transparent) = four + th

The ordinal form is clearly derived from the cardinal number 'four' with the suffix '-th'.

Etymology

The word fourth is made from four and the ending -th, so as an adjective it means 'coming after the third' or 'being number four'.