fourth

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And the fourth is usually described as a metaphoric reference to the setting of the sun, the end of one's day on earth.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number four in a series.
  2. noun One of four equal parts.
  3. noun Music A tone four degrees above or below a given tone in a diatonic scale.

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  • The first page, which ran down to the letter “a” in the above, was written in pale green ink; the second, running to “b,” was in black; the third, running to “c,” was in red; and the fourth was a medley of these with purple, gamboge, and mauve to make the six colors. —  Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • And the fourth is usually described as a metaphoric reference to the setting of the sun, the end of one's day on earth. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • When I heard of a bandit band led by a ... a woman, I knew they must be very good indeed to long survive. —  Conan The Triumphant
  • And my fourth is the power I shall have, when I want to do anything very quietly, of going up the hill and thinking it out in the old garden, where your greenhouse still stands, and the aviary — without fear of interruption from callers. —  The Life of John Ruskin
  • "Shall I phone Simon, then?" —  A Traitor to Memory
 

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  1. Middle English fourthe, from Old English fēortha; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fourthe, forthe, furthe, ferthe, feorthe, from Anglo-Saxon feórtha, feówrtha (= Old Saxon fiortho = OFries. *fiuwerda, *fiurda = Dutch vierde = Middle Low German vērde = Old High German fiordo, Middle High German vierde, German vierte = Icelandic fjōrdhi = Swedish Danish fjerde = Gothic (Moesogothic) *fidwōrta — not recorded), fourth, from feówer, English four, etc., + -tha, -th, ordinal suffix.
 

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