fourth
/fɔrθ/
adjective
- Coming after the third in position or order.
- July is the fourth month of the year.
- The fourth chapter of the book is my favorite.
- She came in fourth place in the competition.
adverb
- In the fourth position; fourthly.
- She placed fourth in the spelling bee.
- The team came in fourth overall.
- He finished fourth in the race.
noun
- One of four equal parts of something; a quarter.
- A fourth of the students were absent.
- He ate a fourth of the pizza.
- She divided the cake into fourths.
- The person or thing in the fourth position.
- The fourth on the list was selected for the job.
- He was the fourth to finish the race.
- She is the fourth in line for the promotion.
- A musical interval spanning four diatonic scale degrees (e.g., C to F).
- She practiced playing fourths on the piano.
- The harmony uses a series of fourths.
- The song begins with a perfect fourth interval.
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