Definitions for fourth

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fourth fourth

Spelling: [fawrth, fohrth]

IPA: /fɔrθ, foʊrθ/

Fourth is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in fourth (fhortu).

Definitions for fourth

noun

1. a fourth part, especially of one (¼).
2. the fourth member of a series.
3. Music. a tone on the fourth degree from a given tone (counted as the first). the interval between such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones.
4. Automotive. fourth gear:
5. (initial capital letter) Independence Day; the Fourth of July (usually preceded by the).

adverb

1. in the fourth place; fourthly.

adjective

1. next after the third; being the ordinal number for four.
2. being one of four equal parts.
3. Automotive. of, relating to, or operating at the gear transmission ratio at which the drive shaft speed is greater than that of third gear for a given engine crankshaft speed, but not so great as that of fifth gear, if such exists:

Origin of fourth

before 950; Middle English fourthe, Old English fēowertha. See four, -th²

Examples for fourth

He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution.

They constantly break the fourth wall, yelling and complaining to the cameramen.

A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

The "missing fourth side" of the room is a commonplace recognized by all.

But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.

He was the head of the school when I, the elder, was a lout in the lower fourth.

Look here; he ain't that Roberts from the big store on fourth Street?

It should not be a tomb save as upon the fourth day the sepulchre in the garden!

He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.