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What is the noun for fourth?

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four
  1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
  2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
  3. A person who is four years old.
  4. (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
  5. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
  6. (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
  7. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Ferraro was the first woman to be included in the final four of a Presidential election.”
fourth
  1. (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position.
  2. (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
  3. (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine.
  4. (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Javius looked away from them to the ruin and destruction of nearly a fourth of his army.”
foursies
  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where four actions must be performed.
fourpiece
  1. (music) A group (of musicians and/or singers) comprising four people; a quartet.
fourhandedness
  1. The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands.
fourish
  1. (colloquial) Any time close to four o'clock.
fourthness
  1. The quality of being or coming fourth.
fourness
  1. The property of being four in number.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There is such a thing as threeness, or fourness, and the threeness of three cannot be added to the fourness of four.”
fours
  1. (poker) A pair of fours.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His solution has been to drop to all fours and force rushers to leap or trip over him.”
      “No sooner do I lie him flat when, whoosh, he's on all fours again and crawling off at top speed.”
      “Profiting from the change were the second set of repechage crews, including the men's coxless fours.”
fourpieces
  1. plural of fourpiece
fourths
  1. plural of fourth
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's a row you can hum, for it emphasizes thirds and fourths, rather than seconds and tritones.”
      “Musically, he used three or four short notes followed by upward-reaching intervals, usually minor thirds or fourths.”
      “There was plenty of jaunty energy in the folkish Intermezzo, enriched by bare fourths and fifths.”
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