'Fourth' definitions:
Definition of 'fourth'
From: WordNet
adverb
In the fourth place; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month" [syn: fourthly, fourth]
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" [syn: fourth, 4th, quaternary]
noun
Following the third position; number four in a countable series
noun
One of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one- fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern]
noun
The musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
Definition of 'Fourth'
From: GCIDE
- Fourth \Fourth\, a. [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. fe['o]r[eth]a, fr. fe['o]wer four.]
- 1. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fourth'
From: GCIDE
- Fourth \Fourth\, n.
- 1. One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One coming next in order after the third. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fourth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- consecutive intervals,
- degree,
- diapason,
- diatessaron,
- diatonic interval,
- diatonic semitone,
- enharmonic diesis,
- enharmonic interval,
- farthing,
- fifth,
- fourth part,
- half step,
- halftone,
- interval,
- less semitone,
- melodic interval,
- note,
- octave,
- one-fourth,
- parallel octaves,
- quart,
- quarter,
- quartern,
- quarto,
- second,
- semitone,
- seventh,
- sixth,
- step,
- third,
- tone,
- twenty-five cents,
- twenty-five percent,
- two bits,
- unison interval,
- whole step
Words containing 'Fourth'
- Fourthly,
- The Fourth,
- The fourth estate,
- fourth class,
- fourth crusade,
- fourth deck,
- fourth dimension,
- fourth estate,
- fourth of july,
- fourth part,
- fourth power,
- fourth stomach,
- fourth ventricle,
- Sixty-fourth,
- euclid's fourth axiom,
- forty-fourth,
- fourth council of constantinople,
- fourth cranial nerve,
- fourth earl of chesterfield,
- fourth earl of orford,
- fourth lateran council,
- fourth-year,
- one-fourth,
- thirty-fourth,
- three-fourths,
- twenty-fourth,
- Sixty-fourth note,
- one-sixty-fourth