threenumber
uk/θriː/us/θriː/A1 the number 3:
I've got three sisters.
School finishes at three (o'clock).
More examples
- The painting depicts the three wise men kneeling in adoration of the baby Jesus.
- She works three afternoons a week at the library.
- Due to roadworks, three lanes of traffic have to converge into two.
- All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.
- The number 345 contains three digits.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
- eighty
- eleven
- fifty
- five
- fourteen
- giga-
- googol
- hundred
- milliard
- million
- O, o
- seventy
- six
- ten
- thirty
- thousand
- trillion
- twelve
- uni
- unit
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Idiom(s)
the three Rs