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three-quarters

three-quarters

73 1.5
An amount equal to three of four equal parts of a whole
  • noun
  • /θriːˈkwɔːrtərz/
translation icon : tres cuartos
  • The beautiful walk through the Siq under a luminescent blue sky is about three-quarters of a mile.
  • nearly three-quarters
  • more than three-quarters
  • about three-quarters

They forced me to drink like three quarter of a liter.

Examples

  • Today, almost 4,000 people live on the island, three-quarters of them of Polynesian ethnicity.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Three-quarters of all cell phones now come with global positioning.

    Chain Letter (2010)

  • I was here three-quarters of an hour ago.

    From Hell (2001)

  • Over three-quarters of the cops on the police force are divorced.

    Murphy's Law (1986)

  • How can I when you have already consumed three-quarters of my getting ready time?

    Fiction book (1995)

  • And since McGuire owned three-quarters of the place, his word was the law.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The gender distribution was typical for most choirs, with about three-quarters of the population being female.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The oldest money market fund in the nation wrote off three-quarters of a billion dollars in bad debt issued by now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers.

    Inside Job (2010)

  • According to OPEC statistics, Venezuela currently produces only three-quarters of its quota of 3.3 million barrels a day.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

three-fourths
vsthree-quarters
  • US
11 1.7

An amount equal to three of four equal parts of a whole

is the alternate phrasing that uses one combined part word instead

How Much

all
∞ 1.0
three-quarters
73 1.5
two-thirds
182 1.6
one-half
61 1.0
one-quarter
29 1.0
none
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

three-quarters singular
three-quarters plural
three-quarter singular

Morphology

three-quarters = three + quarter (transparent) = three + quarter + s

The meaning is directly and transparently the numeral 'three' combined with 'quarter' (one fourth), yielding three fourths.

Etymology

Three-quarters is made of three and quarter. A quarter means 'one of four equal parts', so three-quarters is 'three of those parts', the same as three-fourths of a whole.