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three

Syllabification: (three)
Pronunciation: /THrē/

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Definition of three

number

  • equivalent to the sum of one and two; one more than two; 3:her three children a crew of three a three-bedroom house all three of them are buried there (Roman numeral: iii, III)
  • a group or unit of three people or things:students clustered in twos or threes
  • three years old:she is only three
  • three o’clock:I’ll come at three
  • a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by three.
  • a playing card or domino with three pips.

Origin:

Old English thrīe (masculine), thrīo, thrēo (feminine), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch drie and German drei, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tres and Greek treis

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