fourths
- 1Plural of fourth.
The recipe divides the dough into fourths before baking.
Guitarists often stack fourths to build open, modern-sounding chords.
Note
A regular plural that carries over the singular's countable meanings. For fractions, cutting a pie into fourths is marked as American usage; quarters is the more general word for the same parts. In music, fourths are intervals spanning four scale degrees, as when guitarists stack them into chords. The ordinal adjective takes no -s, so fourths is always a noun, even when it names several things in fourth position.
fourths is a form of fourth
fourth, noun: Whoever or whatever holds the position right after the third in a sequence or ranking. Full entry
- Forms
- fourthfourths plural
- Spelling
- fourth → fourths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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