thrice
3
8.2
- adverb
- /θraɪs/
- Archaic
:
tres veces
- He learned a saying about wood: it will warm you thrice—once when cutting, once when splitting, once when burning.
- twice or thrice
- thrice weekly
- once or thrice
It's three things because it has thrice the sound.
- It's three things because it has thrice the sound.
- I may have done that once or thrice.
- That is food frequency questionnaires that they it's a multiple choice guess test that they administered once or twice or thrice during a years long study.
- This obsession like thrice daily quote massages that we now know almost always turned into sexual abuse.
- Seeing my uniform, seeing my mother, hearing her mindless shrieks, seeing my brothers with Spears in hand, my sisters naked and clinging to men thrice their age.
- But if you tell them the truth in point of being a slave, you're not one whit better than those who've been thrice sold, those who've been sold to several different owners.
Examples
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Sonny had gone sometimes even thrice a day to the blacksmith's where Gertrude's sculptures were finally finished.
Fiction book (1993) -
She sneezes once, she sneezes twice, she'll be my bride when she sneezes thrice.
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We've been there thrice, and Amy and I went there once together.
Blog text (2) -
Just then, the bells rang thrice and she knew that she was about to find out.
Academic text (1995) -
Limbaugh is thrice married, thrice divorced, and working on #4.
Blog text (16) -
I've given up my seat thrice as often as I've been offered one.
Blog text (16) -
This happened at least thrice in Judea, in Lycia and on the island of Rhodes.
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All cases also received xylometazoline 0.25% decongestant nose drops thrice daily.
Academic text (2000) -
Thrice happy he who hides from pomp and power in sylvan shade or solitary bower, where balmy zephyrs fan his burning cheeks...
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The meeting was held thrice this month to discuss the new project.
Synonyms
449
1.0
To multiply a number or amount by three
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Morphology
Etymology
The word thrice comes from Old English built on three, with an old ending that meant 'times'. So thrice simply means 'three times'.