Phrase Hound found 97 phrases and 8 compound words that contain fourth. The most common are listed below. Open fourth in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 97
- Fourth quarter
- fourth gradeThe period in school that comes after third grade and before fifth grade.
- fourth yearUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fourth, year.
- Fourth DayWednesday (the fourth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
- Fourth WorldCollectively, peoples living nomadic, pastoral, hunter-gatherer or other ways of life outside the modern industrial norm.
- twenty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number twenty-four.
- fourth wallThe imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
- May the FourthUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see May, fourth.
- fourth estateA hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.
- Fourth RepublicEllipsis of French Fourth Republic (“1946–1958, from the adoption of the constitution to the Algerian crisis of 1958”).
- fourth personA variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.
- Fourth of JulyThe national holiday of Independence Day in the United States, celebrated (commonly with fireworks) on the fourth day in July to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776.
- thirty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number thirty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 34 of a sequence.
- fifty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number fifty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 54 of a sequence.
- one fourthrare spelling of one-fourth.
- Fourth-generation
- forty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number forty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 44 of a sequence.
- sixty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number sixty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 64 of a sequence.
- fourth officialThe official who keeps things at the dugout in order, and displays substitutions and the amount of injury time
- fourth cousinAny of a number of people who have a common great-great-great-grandparent.
- seventy-fourthThe ordinal form of the number seventy-four, describing a person or thing in position number 74 of a sequence.
- eighty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number eighty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 84 of a sequence.
- fourth-classA former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter.
- fourth-degreeAt the fourth level of some system, particularly
- fourth dimensionThe fourth coordinate indicating a position along the fourth axis.
Compound words 8
- farthingA quarter of any monetary unit or measure.
- firkinA varying measure of capacity, usually being a quarter of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
- fardelA fourth part: a quarter of anything.
- fourthieA fourth grade student.
- fourthhandHaving been relayed by three intermediate sources.
- fourthnessThe quality of being or coming fourth.
- fourthiesplural of fourthie: A fourth grade student.
- fourthingsplural of fourthing: present participle and gerund of fourth