three
Translingual
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| Signal flag for the digit 3 |
Etymology
Pronunciation
Nomen
three
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 3.
- Synonym: terrathree (ITU/IMO)
References
Englisch
| 30 | ||
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| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Group collective: trio, threesome Multipart collective: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Latinate fractional prefix: trient- Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
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| *tréyes |
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 trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: thrē IPA(key): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊i], [θɹ̥i], [θɹi]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iː
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Numeral
three
- A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- 2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
- Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
Three! Who said anything about “go”?
- 2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:
- Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.
- Describing a set or group with three elements.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
cardinal number 3
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describing set or group with three components
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See also
Nomen
three (plural threes)
- The digit/figure 3.
- Anything measuring three units, as length.
- Put all the threes in a separate container.
- 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.
- The playing card featuring three pips.
- Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- 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.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.
Derived terms
Translations
digit/figure 3
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person who is three years old
playing card
See also
| Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) | ||||||
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Symbols of number three in various numeral systems
- Amharic numerals: ፫
- Arabic numerals: 3
- Assyro-Babylonian numerals: 𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Bengali numerals: ৩
- Chinese numerals: 叄, 三
- Eastern Arabic numerals: ٣
- Gujarati numerals: ૩
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੩
- Hindi numerals: ३
- Kannada numerals: ೩
- Khmer numerals: ៣
- Lao numerals: ໓
- Limbu numerals: ᥉
- Malayalam numerals: ൩
- Mongolian numerals: ᠓
- Myanmar numerals: ၃
- Oriya numerals: ୩
- Persian numerals: ۳
- Roman numerals: III
- Tamil numerals: ௩
- Telugu numerals: ౩
- Thai numerals: ๓
- Tibetan numerals: ༣
Anagrams
Manx
Numeral
three
- Alternative spelling of tree.
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English thre, from Old English þriē, þrī, þreō, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θriː/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "South Scots" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /θrəi/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Shetland" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /triː/
Numeral
| 3 | Previous: | twa |
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three
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