THRICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrice mean? 

• THRICE (adverb)
  The adverb THRICE has 1 sense:

1. three times

  Familiarity information: THRICE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRICE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Three times

Context example:

I called you thrice last night

 Context examples 

Thrice he tried to knock him over, then repeated the trick and broke the right fore leg.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This scheme I went over twice, thrice; it was then digested in my mind; I had it in a clear practical form: I felt satisfied, and fell asleep.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We were silent again, and remained so, until the Doctor rose and walked twice or thrice across the room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is a very urgent message, thrice repeated to make it more so.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pardieu! a true Frenchman's words may well be bitter, for bitter is his lot and bitter his thoughts as he rides through his thrice unhappy country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Cal-ee-forn-ee-yeh," he mumbled twice and thrice, listening intently to the sound of the syllables as they fell from his lips. He nodded his head in confirmation.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Though utterly unlike in character, the twins got on remarkably well together, and seldom quarreled more than thrice a day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, sir, every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day, there have been orders and complaints, and I have been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in town.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I really believe that a finely-organized, high-strung man would suffer twice and thrice as much as they from a like injury.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)