Meanings
- not comparableIn the fourth place; fourth in a row.
Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii1 more example
Fourthly, when all equilibria are unstable and complex endogenous fluctuations arise, the LAW policy reduces the amplitude of fluctuations but at the expense of larger average deviations from the targets.
2024, Anufriev, Lamantia, Radi, Tichy, “Leaning against the wind in the New Keynesian model with heterogeneous expectations”, in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin the fourth place
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech za čtvrté
- za čtvrtéin the fourth place
Esperanto kvare
- kvarein the fourth place
Estonian neljandaks
- neljandaksin the fourth place
Finnish neljänneksi
- neljänneksiin the fourth place
French quatrièmement
- quatrièmementin the fourth place
German viertens
- viertensin the fourth place
Hungarian negyedsorban, negyedszer
- negyedsorbanin the fourth place
- negyedszerin the fourth place
Polish po czwarte
- po czwartein the fourth place
Russian в-четвёртых
- в-четвёртых (v-četvjórtyx)in the fourth place
Spanish en cuarto lugar
- en cuarto lugarin the fourth place
Ukrainian по-четве́рте
- по-четве́рте (po-četvérte)in the fourth place
Yiddish פֿערטנס
- פֿערטנס (fertns)in the fourth place
Cite this entry
fourthly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourthly
“fourthly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourthly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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