Definition of Fourth

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Fourth

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

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Fourth Quotations

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
Osama bin Laden

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Alexandre Dumas

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
Thomas S. Monson

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Lynn Abbey

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
Daniel Boone

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

Fourth Translations

fourth in Afrikaans is vierde
fourth in Danish is fjerde
fourth in Dutch is vierde
fourth in German is viertes, vierter, Viertel, vierte, vierte
fourth in Italian is quarta
fourth in Latin is quartus
fourth in Portuguese is quinto, quarto
fourth in Spanish is cuarto

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