Word info

Two thirds

Noun

Meaning

two-thirds (uncountable)

Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
Synonym: 2/3rds
two-thirds majority
two-thirds of the population

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

two-thirds

Examples

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. Aldous Huxley

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln

The fact is, Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together. Paul Keating

Hygiene is two thirds of health. Lebanese Proverb

Two thirds of the work is the semblance. Irish Proverb

Starting the work is two thirds of it. Welsh Proverb

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