'Three' definitions:
Definition of 'three'
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Definition of 'Three'
From: GCIDE
- Three \Three\, n.
- 1. The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii. [1913 Webster]
- Rule of three. (Arith.) See under Rule, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Three'
From: GCIDE
- Three \Three\ (thr[=e]), a. [OE. [thorn]re, [thorn]reo, [thorn]ri, AS. [thorn]r[imac], masc., [thorn]re['o], fem. and neut.; akin to OFries. thre, OS. thria, threa, D. drie, G. drei, OHG. dr[imac], Icel. [thorn]r[imac]r, Dan. & Sw. tre, Goth. [thorn]reis, Lith. trys, Ir., Gael. & W. tri, Russ. tri, L. tres, Gr. trei^s, Skr. tri. [root]301. Cf. 3d Drilling, Tern, a., Third, Thirteen, Thirty, Tierce, Trey, Tri-, Triad, Trinity, Tripod.] One more than two; two and one. "I offer thee three things." --2 Sam. xxiv. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Three solemn aisles approach the shrine. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Three is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, composed of, or containing, three parts, portions, organs, or the like; as, three-branched, three-capsuled, three-celled, three-cleft, three-edged, three-foot, three-footed, three-forked, three-grained, three-headed, three-legged, three-mouthed, three-nooked, three-petaled, three-pronged, three-ribbed, three-seeded, three-stringed, three-toed, and the like. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Three'
- Camp Three,
- Rule of three,
- The three Rs,
- Three Forks,
- Three Lakes,
- Three Oaks,
- Three Points,
- Three Rivers,
- Three Rivers, OR,
- Three Springs,
- Three Way,
- Three balls,
- chief of the three,
- taverns the three,
- the three estates,
- three dimensional,
- three hundred,
- three times,
- Camp Three, MT,
- Space of three dimensions,
- Three Forks, MT,
- Three Lakes, FL,
- Three Lakes, WA,
- Three Oaks, FL,
- Three Oaks, MI,
- Three Points, AZ,
- Three Rivers, CA,
- Three Rivers, MA,
- Three Rivers, MI,
- Three Rivers, TX,
- Three Springs, PA,
- Three Way, TN,
- Three golden balls,
- Three sheets in the wind,
- Three-coat,
- Three-color,
- Three-cornered,
- Three-decker,
- Three-flowered,
- Three-handed,
- Three-leafed,
- Three-leaved,
- Three-lobed,
- Three-mile,
- Three-nerved,
- Three-parted,
- Three-pile,
- Three-piled,
- Three-ply,
- Three-pointed,
- Three-port,
- Three-quarter,
- Three-score,
- Three-sided,
- Three-square,
- Three-valved,
- Three-way,
- eighty-three,
- fifty-three,
- forty-three,
- ninety-three,
- seventy-three,
- sixty-three,
- thirty-three,
- three kings' day,
- three year old,
- three-bagger,
- three-d,
- three-dimensional,
- three-dimensionality,
- three-figure,
- three-fold,
- three-fourths,
- three-hitter,
- three-hundredth,
- three-lane,
- three-legged,
- three-lipped,
- three-membered,
- three-needled,
- three-party,
- three-petaled,
- three-petalled,
- three-piece,
- three-pronged,
- three-quarters,
- three-seeded,
- three-story three-storied three-storey three-storeyed,
- three-wheel,
- three-wheeled,
- twenty-three,
- Chevy Chase Section Three,
- Three-leaved nightshade,
- Three-lobed leaf,
- Three-nerved leaf,
- Three-parted leaf,
- Three-quarter length,
- cross forked of three points,
- the three-mile limit,
- three-banded armadillo,
- three-base hit,
- three-bearded rockling,
- three-card monte,
- three-centered arch,
- three-cornered hat,
- three-cornered leek,
- three-day event,
- three-day measles,
- three-dimensional figure,
- three-dimensional radar,
- three-mile belt,
- three-mile limit,
- three-mile zone,
- three-minute glass,
- three-piece suit,
- three-point landing,
- three-point switch,
- three-point turn,
- three-quarter binding,
- three-ring circus,
- three-seeded mercury,
- three-spined stickleback,
- three-toed sloth,
- three-way calling,
- three-way switch,
- three-year-old,
- Chevy Chase Section Three, MD,
- Three-torque system of control,
- prayer of azariah and song of the three children,
- three-year-old horse