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| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Abbreviated ordinal: 3rd Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third last, third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Germanic collective: trio, threesome Collective of n parts: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium | ||
Etymology
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From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /θɜːd/
- (US) enPR: thûrd, IPA(key): /θɚd/
Audio (US): (file)
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /θɪɹd/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /θøːd/
- (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /θeːd/
- (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /θɛːd/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /tʊːɹd/
- (New York City) IPA(key): /t̪ɔɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
- Homophone: turd (th-stopping)
Adjective
[edit]third (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. The third tree from the left is my favorite.
- 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry[1], UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
- 2024 July 1, Chandelis Duster, “Biden and Trump touted what they’ve done for HBCUs at CNN’s debate. Here’s what their records show”, in CNN[2]:“Congress took the lead on putting the HBCU funding in those bills and passing them. The third COVID-19 bill, passed under President Biden, included as much funding for HBCUs as both of the first two Covid-19 bills under President Trump,” he said.
Synonyms
[edit]- 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III, tertiary
Derived terms
[edit]- adult third culture kid
- 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, third class
- 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
- third officer
- third-order
- third order
- third order stream
- third partier
- third-party
- third party
- third-party claim
- third-party cookie
- third party processor
- third penny
- third-personal
- third-person dual
- third-person effect
- third-person plural
- third-person shooter
- third-person singular
- third place
- third position
- third-pounder
- third rail
- third rate
- third-rate
- third reading
- Third Reich
- Third Rome
- third screen
- third sector
- third session
- third sex
- third shift
- third slip
- third space
- third spacing
- third stream
- third-string
- third string
- third-stringer
- third time is the charm
- third time lucky
- third time pays for all
- third time's a charm
- third time's the charm
- third to last
- third tonsil
- third umpire
- third ventricle
- third-wave coffee
- third-wave feminism
- third-wave feminist
- third wave feminist
- third-waver
- third way
- third-wheel
- third wheel
- third-world
- third world
- third year
Translations
[edit] the ordinal form of the cardinal number three — see also 3rd
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Noun
[edit]third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)
- The person or thing in the third position. Jones came in third.
- One of three equal parts of a whole. Synonyms: one-third, ⅓, 1/3 He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- 2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNN[3]:Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
- 2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19:Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox). Now put it into third.
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. They sing in thirds.
- (baseball) third base The play ended with Jones standing on third.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Synonym: tierce
- 1994, John David North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, page xxi:[…] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.
Derived terms
[edit]- augmented third
- centre third
- diminished third
- goal third
- lower third
- neutral third
- one third
- one-third
- Picardy third
- rule of thirds
- two-thirds
- two thirds
- two thirds, two-thirds, twothirds
Related terms
[edit]- riding
Translations
[edit] person or thing in the third position
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Verb
[edit]third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)
- (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.
Related terms
[edit]- major third
- minor third
- third gear
- third person
Translations
[edit] agree with a proposition
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See also
[edit]- interval
Anagrams
[edit]- drith, thrid
Scots
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| Cardinal: three Ordinal: third | ||
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.
Adjective
[edit]third
- third
References
[edit]- “thrid, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “third, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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