three
/θɹiː/ noun C2- The digit/figure 3.
- Anything measuring three units, as length. · Put all the threes in a separate container.
- A person who is three years old. · All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
- The playing card featuring three pips.
- Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
Plural threes
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Three blows were struck upon the panel of the door.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
Not these two or three years, perhaps.”
Arrived here only yesterday morning, and married today at three o’clock!
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