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three
/θɹiː/
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What does three mean?
numeral
- A numerical value equal to 3; the number following two and preceding four.
- Describing a set or group with three elements.
noun
- The digit/figure 3.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Anything measuring three units, as length.
- A person who is three years old.
- The playing card featuring three pips.
- Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- Abbreviation of three-pointer.
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IPA pronunciation
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The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling’s lap.
By the time he had walked three or four miles, every shape on the landscape had assumed a uniform hue of blackness.
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Then there were three quick pulls, and Jeff and I, not without a joyous sense of recovered freedom, successfully followed our leader.
Farther along we came upon a group of three women and two children in the road, busy clearing out a labourer’s cottage.
She tries to be modest when she complains to the postmaster that her New York paper is more than three days late.