fourth

fourth is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
2. adjective. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
3. noun. One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
4. noun. The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
5. noun. the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
6. noun. one of four equal parts

   "a quarter of a pound"

   Synonyms: quarter, quartern

7. noun. following the third position; number four in a countable series
8. adjective. coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude

   "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"

   Synonyms: quaternary, th

9. adverb. in the fourth place

   "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month"

   Synonyms: fourthly

Synonyms

quarter, quartern, quaternary, th, fourthly

Common word forms

fourths, fourthly

Words from these letters

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