three times

1. 1.

   by a factor of three

   “our rent increased threefold in the past five years”

   Synonymsthreefold

Questions about three times

What does three times mean?

three times means "by a factor of three".

What is another word for three times?

Close synonyms include threefold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is three times a common word?

three times is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.