Thrice
adverb
Three times.
I visit my parents thrice a year.
Often appears as...
- thrice a day
- thrice a week
adverb
Three times.
I visit my parents thrice a year.
Often appears as...
- thrice a day
- thrice a week
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Pro Tip 1/3Rarely Used
Thrice isn't common in everyday language and might sound old-fashioned or formal.
The physician instructed to take the medication thrice daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Literary
Used in literature or poetry for a rhythmic or dramatic effect.
The hero thrice denied his destiny before embracing it.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Usage
Thrice is more common in historical contexts, evoking a sense of antiquity.
The knight thrice battled the dragon in ancient tales.
Pro Tip 1/3Rarely Used
Thrice isn't common in everyday language and might sound old-fashioned or formal.
The physician instructed to take the medication thrice daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Literary
Used in literature or poetry for a rhythmic or dramatic effect.
The hero thrice denied his destiny before embracing it.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Usage
Thrice is more common in historical contexts, evoking a sense of antiquity.
The knight thrice battled the dragon in ancient tales.
Pro Tip 1/3Rarely Used
Thrice isn't common in everyday language and might sound old-fashioned or formal.
The physician instructed to take the medication thrice daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Literary
Used in literature or poetry for a rhythmic or dramatic effect.
The hero thrice denied his destiny before embracing it.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Usage
Thrice is more common in historical contexts, evoking a sense of antiquity.
The knight thrice battled the dragon in ancient tales.
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East vs west -- the...
and flew around the continents and the mountains and the oceans. He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.
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East vs west -- the...
and flew around the continents and the mountains and the oceans. He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.
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Pawan Kalyan
Indian Actor
I wanted to remain a bachelor from the beginning, but I got married thrice, and I don't know why I did it. I think it's not easy to live with me because of my impatience and busy schedules. Sometimes my mother is unhappy about a few decisions I have taken, but it is completely personal, and I don't want to make it public.
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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.
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Ellen G. White
American Writer
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.
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Pinarayi Vijayan
Indian Politician
As the Chief Minister, I make it a point that review meetings are conducted every day - sometimes more than thrice a day - involving heads of all departments concerned.
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N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.
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Ronnie Screwvala
Indian Businessman
I'm off the diet, but not the treadmill. I speak as someone who's attempted to lose weight and get fit thrice before in my life.
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Manini Mishra
Indian Actress
I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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Nidhhi Agerwal
Indian Actress
I remember I would watch the same film thrice a day for an entire month.
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Pawan Kalyan
Indian Actor
I wanted to remain a bachelor from the beginning, but I got married thrice, and I don't know why I did it. I think it's not easy to live with me because of my impatience and busy schedules. Sometimes my mother is unhappy about a few decisions I have taken, but it is completely personal, and I don't want to make it public.
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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.
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Ellen G. White
American Writer
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.
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Pinarayi Vijayan
Indian Politician
As the Chief Minister, I make it a point that review meetings are conducted every day - sometimes more than thrice a day - involving heads of all departments concerned.
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N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.
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Ronnie Screwvala
Indian Businessman
I'm off the diet, but not the treadmill. I speak as someone who's attempted to lose weight and get fit thrice before in my life.
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Manini Mishra
Indian Actress
I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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Nidhhi Agerwal
Indian Actress
I remember I would watch the same film thrice a day for an entire month.
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