English Explanatory Dictionary

third

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
noun
  1. The person or thing in the third position.
  2. One of three equal parts of a whole.
  3. Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
  4. An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
  5. third base
  6. A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
  7. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
  8. One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system.
verb
  1. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
  2. To divide into three equal parts.

Pronunciation

/θɜːd/ thûrd /θɚd/ en-us-third.ogg /θɪɹd/ /θøːd/ /θeːd/ /θɛːd/ /tʊːɹd/ /t̪ɔɪd/

Word forms

third thirds thirding thirded

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.

Synonyms

3rd 3d IIIrd III tertiary one-third ⅓ 1/3 tierce

Related words

riding major third minor third third gear third person interval

Derived words

adult third culture kid at third hand Earth's third pole Newton's third law petty officer third class safe third country third-act breakup third age third angle projection third art third baseman third best third camp third-campism third-campist third class third-class third-class citizen third-class entity third-class object third-class value third conditional third contact third cosmic velocity third country third cousin third cover third cranial nerve third-culture kid third culture kid third degree third-degree third-degree burn third-degree murder third-degree relative third dimension third down third estate third eye third finger third freedom rights third gender third grade third-grader third grader third-guarder third-hand third hand third-hand smoke third inversion third island chain third language acquisition third last third leg third lieutenant third-line forcing third man third market thirdness third normal form
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