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adjective

Fourth adj.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

noun

Fourth n.

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.

(Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

One coming next in order after the third.

The Fourth, specifically, in the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.

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Etymology of 'Fourth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fourth" Quotes from Famous Books

... (4) The fourth refers to the extent Hindus should join hands with the Mahomedans. It is therefore a matter of feeling and opinion. It is expedient to suffer for my Mahomedan brother to the utmost in a just cause and I should therefore travel with him along the whole road ...

— Freedom's Battle - Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation • Mahatma Gandhi

... Chancellor of England! It requires all the learning and the logic of a Lord Chief Justice and a London barrister to establish a connection between such premises and such a conclusion. And if Shakespeare's lines smell of law, how strong is the odor of parchment and red tape in these, from Drayton's Fourth Eclogue (1605): ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

... just as you like," Evie returned, indifferently. "Cousin Colfax Yorke," she added, looking at Miriam, "has telephoned that he can't come to dine; and, as it's too late to get anybody else, Aunt Queenie thought you might come and make a fourth. It's only ourselves and—- him," she nodded ...

— The Wild Olive • Basil King

... path of the earth, we come to the orbit of the fourth planet, Mars, which requires 687 days, or nearly two years, to complete its circuit round the sun. With our arrival at Mars we have gained the limit to the inner portion ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... lower end of the room was a lady painting, with exquisite art indeed, a beautiful Madonna; near her another, drawing a landscape out of her own imagination; a third, carving a picture-frame in wood, in the finest manner, a fourth, engraving; and a young girl reading aloud to them; the distance from the ladies in the bow window being such, that they could receive no disturbance from her. At the next window were placed a group of girls, from the age of ten years old ...

— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott

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