threes
- 1Plural of three. Use this when you mean more than one of the number three.
The children practiced counting by threes during math class.
She rolled two threes and moved her piece six spaces.
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- 2Long shots in basketball that each score three points.
She knocked down five threes in the final quarter.
The team kept missing easy layups but hitting threes from far out.
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- 3The age of being three years old.
Many parents say the threes are even harder than the twos.
Their daughter is right in the middle of the threes now.
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- 4In card games, two cards that both show the number three.
He stayed in the hand because he was holding threes.
Her threes lost to a pair of kings at the showdown.
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- 5The cells on the second floor up in a building.
They moved him up to the threes after the fight on the landing.
All the new arrivals were locked up on the threes that week.
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threes is a form of three
three, noun: The hour of three o'clock, in the morning or the afternoon. Full entry
- Forms
- threethrees plural
- Spelling
- three → threes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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