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Fourth

adjective

Coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude. Synonyms: 4th, quaternary.

noun

Following the third position; number four in a countable series.

One of four equal parts. Synonyms: fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent.

The musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it.

adverb

In the fourth place. Synonym: fourthly.

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"Fourth" Quotes from Famous Books

... neither they nor their descendants should ever be enslaved; second, that the rent of land should be paid in money at a fixed price, not in service; third, that they should be at liberty to buy and sell in market and elsewhere, like other free men; fourth, that they should ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... third or fourth year Johnson threw up a couple of contracts he had on hand, sacrificed a piece of land which he had bought and on which he had built a cottage in the short time he had been in Solong, and, one lovely day in June, when the skies were their fairest, the hills their bluest, ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... him, honour is always saved. In describing a certain over of his own bowling, Mr. Lucas says: "I was conscious of a twinge as I saw his swift glance round the field. He then hit my first ball clean out of it; from my second he made two; from my third another two; the fourth and fifth wanted playing; and the sixth he hit over my head among some distant haymakers." You see, the fourth and ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... premature close, owing to the lateness of the hour and a decided preference on the part of the younger members of the company for the dancing which had been promised later as a bribe, and which they had no intention of sacrificing to a fourth act—for art must not be ...

— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... storehouses, the first composed of a single block of granite, the second of plates of iron, the third of hens' eggs, the fourth of goose-eggs, the fifth of polished quartz, the sixth of the finest eagles' eggs, and the seventh of ...

— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

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