{
  "id": "fourth.ordinal",
  "term": "fourth",
  "sense": "ordinal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the position that follows the third in an order",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "third.ordinal",
      "order.arrangement",
      "four.cardinal"
    ],
    "interaction": "When the order adds one after the third, a position is.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "new rank",
      "sequence index",
      "position after third"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Carissa Moore won the first gold medal in women's surfing, the fourth sport added to the Olympic program that year.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, premiered in 1824, follows the third and concludes the piece with the 'Ode to Joy'.",
      "domain": "music"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apollo 13 was the fourth scheduled crewed mission to land on the Moon, following Apollo 10, 11, and 12 in the sequence.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "order.arrangement",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a positional concept within an ordered sequence"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "friday.temporal",
    "thursday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "fourth",
    "fourths"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fourth.ordinal"
}