three
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thrē
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊iː]
ipa: [θɾ̪̊ɪi]
ipa: [θɹ̥ɪi]
note: UK, th-fronting
enpr: frē
ipa: /fɹiː/
note: UK, th-fronting
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊iː]
ipa: [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
enpr: thrē
ipa: /θɹiː/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊i]
ipa: [θɹ̥i]
ipa: [θɹi]
homophone: tree (th-stopping)
homophone: free (th-fronting)
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: threes
form: thre
form: þree
form: threy
form: thrie
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
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.
Senses: examples: text: In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.
ref: 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 1:
glosses: The digit/figure 3.
examples: text: Put all the threes in a separate container.
glosses: Anything measuring three units, as length.
examples: text: All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
glosses: A person who is three years old.
glosses: The playing card featuring three pips.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of three-pointer.
Derived terms: bad things come in threes
ball-on-three-balls test
big three
Chinese three-banded box turtle
Chinese three-striped box turtle
clogs to clogs in three generations
common three-ring
count to three
couple-three
couple three
easy as one two three
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
fish and company stink after three days
good things come in threes
grade three
in three days
less than three
logo three
match-three game
meat and three
me three
northern three-toed jerboa
number three
one-two-three
on threes
page-three girl
page three girl
phony as a three-dollar bill
purple three-awn grass
queer as a three dollar bill
ride the three-legged mare
rising three
rule of three
shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations
six and two threes
Tate's three-striped dasyure
thirteen
Three Amigos
three-and-out
threeawn
three-bagger
three-ball
three-banded courser
three-banded grasshopper
three-banded warbler
three body problem
three-bottle man
Three Bridges
three card brag
three-card marney
three-card monte
three-card shuffle
three-card trick
three-card trickster
three-center two-electron bond
three cheers
Three Cocks
three-cornered
three-cornered jack
Three Crosses
three-cueing
three day eventing
three-day fever
three-day measles
three days ago
three-day sickness
three day sickness
three-decker
three-dimensional
three-dimensional chess
three-dimensionality
three-dimensionally
three dog night
three-dog night
three-door
three eighths
three-eighths
three-fifths
three fifths
three figures
threefin
three-finger salute
three fires
Threefish
three-fisted
threefold
three-forked
three-fourths
three fourths
three-four time
three fries short of a Happy Meal
three Fs
three green
three G's
three guys in a garage
three halfpence
three halfpennies
three-headed
three-high
three-hole punch
three-horned
three hots and a cot
three hundred
three-hundredth
three-in-hand
three-in-one
three-in-oneness
threeish
three kings' cake
Three Kings Islands
three L
three-legged
three-legged mare
three-legged race
three letter agency
three-letter agency
three-line whip
threeling
three-lips
three marks of existence
three-martini lunch
three-men-in-a-boat
three-milk cake
three-minute warning
three musketeers
threenager
three-name
threeness
Threeness
Three Oaks
three o'clock
three of a kind
three-of-a-kind
three-on-the-tree
three-parent
three-party
three-party system
three-peat
threepeat
threepence
threepenny
three per cents
three-phase
three-piece suit
three-piece suite
three-pile
three-pipe problem
threeplex
three-ply
three-point landing
three-point line
three-point shot
three-point turn
three poisons
three-pounder
three-pronged
three-quarter
three-quarter back
three-quarter bathroom
three-quarter brother
three-quarter coat
three-quarters
three quarters
three-quarter sibling
three-quarter sister
three-quarter-time
three quartertime
three-quarter time
three-quartertime
three quarter time
three quarter-time
threequel
three-revert rule
three-ring
three-ring circus
three ring circus
Three Rivers
three R's
three Rs
threescore
three score and fifth
three score and ten
three-second rule
three seconds rule
three-sheet
three sheets
three sheets in the wind
three sheets to the wind
three-shot
threeside
threesies
three sisters
three skips of a louse
threesome
three-space
three-spined stickleback
three-spine stickleback
three-spot seahorse
three-square
three squares
three stars
three-step snake
three stops short of Dagenham
three strikes and you're out
three-strikes law
three-striped ground squirrel
three-striped palm civet
three-tap
threeteen
threeth
three thousand
three-tiered
three-time loser
three times a charm
three time's a charm
three times three
three-toed box turtle
three-toed sloth
three-toed woodpecker
three togethers
three true outcomes
three-up
three-vee
threevee
threeven
threeway
three-way
three-way girl
three-way stop
three-way switch
three-wheel
three-wheeled
three-wheeler
three wise men
three wood
thrinter
throdd
throuple
thruppence
two's company and three is none
Related terms: word: ፫
word: 3
sense: Assyro-Babylonian numerals
word: 𒁹𒁹𒁹
word: ৩
word: 叄
word: 三
word: ٣
word: ૩
word: ੩
word: ३
word: ೩
word: ៣
word: ໓
word: ᥉
word: ൩
word: ᠓
word: ၃
word: ୩
word: ۳
word: III
word: ௩
word: ౩
word: ๓
word: ༣