fourth
noun/fɔːθ/
/fɔːrθ/
(especially North American English) (also quarter British and North American English)
- one of four equal parts of something
- a fourth of the city population
- one fourth of total sales
Homophones forth | fourthforth fourth/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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fourth- cut something into fourths
- divide something into fourths
- fold something into fourths
- …
- fourth of
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