The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourth \Fourth\, n.
One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.
(Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
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One coming next in order after the third.
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.
Usage examples of "the fourth".
At a guess, I would have said that the fourth dimension would be something more colorous and complex and varied-a land of multifold hues and many-angled forms.
Kater, who lived on the fourth floor next door to Meyn the trumpeter, passed us on the stairs.
But first let me note the fourth word in the second title of this book.
You take this, go in that building 525, climb the stairs to the fourth-floor rear, and ease it under the door.
His third wife had no children, so the poets say, and the fourth had only one daughter.
But on the fourth morning the sky to the south grew white, then brown.
On the fourth day he finally woke, but seemed even less interested in his surroundings than on the first evening when he and Jame had met.