three

Etymology 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.

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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, thrain, 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-camera, three-camera sitcom, 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, threed, three day eventing, three-day fever, three-day measles, three days ago, three day sickness, three-day sickness, three-day weekend, three-decker, three-dimensional, three-dimensional chess, three-dimensionality, three-dimensionally, three-dog night, three dog night, three-door, three-eighths, three eighths, three-episode rule, 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, threegether, 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, threek, 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, threemake, 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, threepeat, three-peat, threepence, threepenny, three per cents, three-phase, three-piece, 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 quarter-time, three-quartertime, three-quarter-time, three-quarter time, three quartertime, threequel, three-revert rule, three-ring, three ring circus, three-ring circus, Three Rivers, three Rs, three R's, three's a crowd, 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-star, 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 time's a charm, three times a charm, three times three, three-toed box turtle, three-toed sloth, three-toed woodpecker, three togethers, threetooth, three true outcomes, three-up, threevee, three-vee, 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, two's company, three's a crowd

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