- 4th
- Today is the fourth (of May).
- the fourth century BC
- It's her fourth birthday.
- My office is on the fourth floor.
- It's the fourth time that I've been to America.
- Her mother had just given birth to another child, her fourth.
- the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter
- He finished fourth in the race.
- Edward IV (= Edward the Fourth)
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Homophones forth | fourthforth fourth
See fourth in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary/fɔːθ/
/fɔːrθ/
- forth adverb
- The film cuts back and forth between the two stories.
- fourth ordinal number
- The fourth of July is Independence Day in the US.
- fourth noun (especially North American English)
- A fourth of the ski resorts in the Alps may not have enough snow this year.
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