three

Meaning

Noun

• The digit/figure 3.
• Anything measuring three units, as length.
• A person who is three years old.
• The playing card featuring three pips.
• Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
• Abbreviation of three-pointer

Related

Similar words

• leash, tether

Origin

• 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. trey.
• Cognates with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς, and others.