three
see also: Three
Pronunciation Noun
Three
Noun
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see also: Three
Signal flag for the digit 3 |
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 3.
- Synonyms: terrathree
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք, Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς, Church Slavic трьѥ, and others.
Pronunciation- (RP) enPR: thrē IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [θɾ̪̊ɪi], [θɹ̥ɪi]
- (British, th-fronting) enPR: frē IPA: /fɹiː/
- (Ireland) IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
- (America) enPR: thrē IPA: /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊i], [θɹ̥i], [θɹi]
- A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC ↗:
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- Describing a set or group with three elements.
three (plural threes)
- The digit/figure 3.
- Anything measuring three units, as length.
- Put all the threes in a separate container.
- A person who is three years old.
- All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
- The playing card featuring three pips.
- Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul ↗”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer
Three
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