third
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Adjective (1)
Noun (6)thirds
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole“it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement”Synonyms: one-thirdtierceType of common fraction, simple fraction
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)“he is playing third”Synonyms: third baseType of positionMember of baseball team
- following the second position in an ordering or series“a distant third”“he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment”Type of rank
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it“a simple harmony written in major thirds”Type of interval, musical interval
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle“you shouldn't try to start in third gear”Synonyms: third gearType of gear, gear mechanismPart of car, auto
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball“he was cut down on a close play at third”Synonyms: third baseType of base, bag
Adverb (1)
- in the third place“third we must consider unemployment”Synonyms: thirdly
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Translations
Adjective the ordinal form of the cardinal number three
- Spanish
- tercero
- French
- troisième
- German
- dritte
- Italian
- terzo
- Portuguese
- terceiro
- Turkish
- üçüncü
- Russian
- тре́тий trétij
- Arabic
- ثَالِث ṯāliṯ
- Chinese
- 第三 dìsān
- Japanese
- 三番目 sanban-me
35 more languages
- Dutch
- derde
- Polish
- trzeci
- Swedish
- tredje
- Greek
- τρίτος trítos
- Korean
- 셋째 setjjae
- Indonesian
- ketiga
- Vietnamese
- thứ ba
- Hungarian
- harmadik
- Portuguese (PT)
- terceiro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 第三 dìsān
- Albanian
- i tretë
- Breton
- trede
- Catalan
- tercer
- Corsican
- terzu
- Czech
- třetí
- Danish
- tredje
- Esperanto
- tria
- Estonian
- kolmas
- Finnish
- kolmas
- Georgian
- მესამე mesame
- Hebrew
- שלישי shlishí
- Icelandic
- þriðji
- Kurdish
- sêyem
- Latvian
- trešais
- Lithuanian
- trečias
- Malagasy
- fahatelo
- Norwegian
- tredje
- Romanian
- al treilea
- Scottish Gaelic
- trìtheamh
- Serbo-Croatian
- treći
- Slovak
- tretí
- Slovenian
- tretji
- Swahili
- ya tatu
- Welsh
- trydydd
- Yiddish
- דריט drit
Noun one of three equal parts of a whole
Noun musical interval of a third
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. thirde, AS. þridda, fr. þrī, þreó, three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. þriði, Goth. þridja, L. tertius, Gr. τρίτος, Skr. tṛtīya. See Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction, Tierce.
1. Next after the second; coming after two others; — the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. “The third night.” Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
Third estate. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers état. See Tiers état. Third order Roman Catholic Church, an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, noun, 1. — Third person Grammar, the person spoken of. See Person, noun, 7. — Third sound. Music See Third, noun, 3.
1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
3. Music The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
4. pl. Law The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Major third Music, an interval of two tones. — Minor third Music, an interval of a tone and a half.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54