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Three
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- 1 being one more than two wordnet
- 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 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.
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.
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.
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