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three

  • /θɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /θɹiː/ UK
  • [θɾ̪̊iː] UK
  • [θɾ̪̊ɪi] UK
  • [θɹ̥ɪi] UK
  • /fɹiː/
  • /θɹiː/ Ireland
  • [θɾ̪̊iː] Ireland
  • [t̪ɾ̪̊iː] Ireland
  • /θɹiː/ US
  • [θɾ̪̊i] US
  • [θɹ̥i] US
  • [θɹi] US

Sounds like tree (th-stopping), free (th-fronting) · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.

Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treís), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

number thre · þree · threy · thrie · free · tree

  1. A numerical value equal to 3; the number following two and preceding four. Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
  2. Describing a set or group with three elements.

noun threes · thre · þree · threy · thrie · free

  1. The digit/figure 3. In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.
  2. Anything measuring three units, as length. Put all the threes in a separate container.
  3. 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.
  4. The playing card featuring three pips.
  5. Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
  6. abbreviation Abbreviation of three-pointer.three-pointer

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