fourth
- adjective
- /fɔrθ/
- 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.
- But no second or fourth clown from the left, Herb.
- So I've wanted a fourth one for a long time now.
- But then you have a fourth baby, the CFPB.
- If they repeat on the fourth time, then you take a stick.
- My wife is now pregnant with my fourth child, a son.
- Brad has, I think he's now raising his fourth FG angels fund.
Examples
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And on our third or fourth date, we went to dinner.
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And I think this is his fourth book, OK.
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OK, so second time on this one, fourth time in total.
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It's probably like the third or fourth day that I was there.
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You know, the fourth thing is trust.
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But tell me, does the fourth piece taste as good as the first?
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The Mind Stone is the fourth of the Infinity Stones to show up in the last few years.
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This is the fourth box of my favorites.
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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
Coming after the third in a list or on a calendar
Fourth in a series, after the third and before the fifth
Compounds
A national holiday in the United States that celebrates the Declaration of Independence of 1776
- Specialized
An extra dimension beyond length, width and height often used for time
- Literature
News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power
- Specialized
A small space in the brain that holds spinal fluid and lets it flow to the spinal cord
A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople
- Formal
A 1215 meeting of Catholic church leaders that set important church rules and beliefs
- Specialized
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
- Specialized
A nerve that controls a top eye muscle and helps the eye look down
A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions
- Specialized
A last stomach compartment in animals like cows and sheep that digests food
- Specialized
A very short musical sound equal to one sixty-fourth of a whole note
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.