Three
noun, num ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The digit/figure 3.
"In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes."
- 2 one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips wordnet
- 3 Anything measuring three units, as length.
"Put all the threes in a separate container."
- 4 the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 The playing card featuring three pips.
- 7 Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
"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."
- 8 Abbreviation of three-pointer. abbreviation, alt-of
- 1 being one more than two wordnet
- 1 A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
"Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen."
- 2 Describing a set or group with three elements.
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More examples"Excuse me; allow me to point out three errors in the above article."
Etymology
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. Doublet of tres and trey. Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treís), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.