three
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1.0
- numeral
- /θriː/
:
tres
- I am going to be strength training three days a week..
- three years
- three months
- two or three
But me going silent for three days does.
- But me going silent for three days does.
- And, and it took them three times to do that.
- This race stands now less than three weeks from voting day.
- I just paid full price for three of the same drink.
- I should have said training three times a day, right?
- Aristophanes says there were three kinds of beings.
- OK, maybe it's only three or four books.
Examples
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I've been living here for almost three years.
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I bought three apples from the market.
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Can I do that with just three data points?
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I just paid full price for three of the same drink.
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And, and it took them three times to do that.
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We can meet three times a week.
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In, say, three years, what would this be worth to me?
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The band has been learning the same three pieces for the past four weeks.
Academic text (2011) -
I'll only be gone for three days.
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There were just the three of us in the cabin.
Synonyms
304
1.0
A Roman numeral that means three
6
9.9
A playing card like the three of hearts or a die face showing three
1
9.9
A group of three things
A group of three people or things seen as one
Idioms
Compounds
9
3.5
Clothing made of three matching pieces, usually a jacket, trousers and a waistcoat
1
6.0
A slow animal from Central and South America that lives in trees and has three long claws on each foot
- Archaic
1
9.9
Seventy years that people often use to mean a typical human lifespan
- Jargon
1
6.5
A horse competition held over three days with dressage, cross-country, and jumping
- Archaic
1
9.9
A manual gearbox with three speeds and the gear stick on the steering column
1
4.3
Three voices or instruments sing different notes together to make a full sound
- Archaic
1
8.8
A long business lunch where people drink several martinis and relax
- Archaic
1
7.5
A line three miles from a country's coast that marks the sea it controls
- Specialized
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6.7
All three wheels of a plane touch the ground at the same time as it arrives on the runway
A section added to the Book of Daniel containing a prayer and a song by three young men
A religious passage added to the Book of Daniel that contains a prayer and a song by three children
A Christian holiday twelve days after Christmas that remembers the visit of three wise men to baby Jesus
- Literature
The three highest gods in Taoism who represent the pure form of the Tao
- Specialized
A curved opening made by joining three curves into a wide, low shape
A small South American animal with three bands of hard plates on its back that can roll into a ball
- Specialized
A system that uses radio waves to show how far away, which direction, and how high objects are
- Specialized
A mild illness caused by a virus that gives a rash and can harm an unborn baby in early pregnancy
An organization that helps people share new ideas, find investors, and meet business contacts
- Specialized
A device with three wires that lets you turn lights on or off from two places
- Specialized
A book with its spine and most of the sides covered in a different material like leather
A small fish with three sharp spines on its back that lives in rivers and the sea
A small weed with round leaves that grows in open disturbed ground in North America
- Jargon
A horse that is three years old and usually races only against others of the same age
- Specialized
A device that lets you turn a light on or off from two different places
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
Three comes from an old word that meant 'three' and is the same basic root you see in third and in triangle, a shape with three sides, which makes it easy to remember as a group of three parts.