fourth

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in the fourth place

   fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month

2. 2
   adj

   The ordinal form of the number four.

   The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.

3. 3
   noun

   The person or thing in the fourth position.

   We are one F and two M's seeking the company of a fourth (M or F) for our spacious and friendly Somerville apt.

4. 4
   noun

   A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).

   Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

5. 5
   noun

   One sixtieth of a third or tierce.

   […] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.

6. 6
   verb

   To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.

   If he remembered rightly what took place in the House on the first night of the session, the Attorney General would have to file an information, not only against the noble Lord who proposed the address, and the hon. Member for London who seconded it, but also against the hon. Member who thirded, and the noble Lord who fourthed it, and indeed against every Member in the House.

7. 7
   adj

   coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude

8. 8
   noun

   the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.