FOURTH

[determiner], [pronoun], [adjective], [adverb] [not gradable], nounInflation increased in the fourth quarter of the year.My birthday is on the fourth of December.Henry was/finished fourth in the race.A fourth is a quarter.The area is three fourths desert.The fourth dimension was originally thought of as a direction of measurement in addition to those of length, width and height, but now it generally refers, esp. in science fiction, to time.If you travel in the fourth dimension you travel backwards or forwards through time.The Fourth Estate is newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations and the people who work for them who are thought to have a lot of political influence.The Fourth of July (formal Independence Day) is the national holiday in the US which celebrates the 1776 Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.The Fourth of July is traditionally celebrated with firework displays.The anti-aircraft guns lit up the sky like the Fourth of July.See study section: Public holidays and special days in the UK and the US