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fourth

fourth

∞ 1.0
Being in position number four in an order
  • adjective
  • /fɔrθ/
: 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
328 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

123 1.4

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

21 3.1

About the fourth and last year of high school or college

12 1.0

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

fourth dimension
  • Specialized
7 8.5

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

fourth estate
  • Literature
5 5.7

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

Fourth Reich
  • Offensive
4 9.9

A feared future German state that continues Nazi ideas

fourth power
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A number multiplied by itself four times

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 stomach
  • Specialized
1 8.5

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

1 9.9

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

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

1 1.0

One of four equal pieces of something

1 2.7

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

fourth deck
  • Specialized
1 7.4

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

fourth cranial nerve
  • Specialized
1 7.0

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

sixty-fourth note
  • Specialized
1 7.7

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

Euclid's fourth axiom
  • Specialized
9.9

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

Poor teaching in schools that does not prepare students

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'.