Three-quarter

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)

    "England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out."

  2. 2
    A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %) singular

    "Europe has around a three-quarter billion/milliard (i.e. 750 million) inhabitants."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of three fourths of the usual dimension not-comparable

    "a three-quarter length coat."

  2. 2
    with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms
three-quarters¾

Example

More examples

"England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out."

Related phrases

three-quarter bathroom

More for "three-quarter"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.