Third Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

The win was his third of the year.

The office is on the third floor.

That’s the third time I’ve seen him today.

C is the third letter in the alphabet.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

Another South American horse, Paseana, won seven straight races from November of 1991 to July of 1992 and gave McAnally a third Breeders’ Cup Distaff win.

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San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022

Croft, a trucker from Delaware, is also charged with the two conspiracies, as well as a third charge for possession of an unregistered destructive device.

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Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022

Providence, Rhode Island had less than half an inch of rainfall in the third driest July on record, and Boston had six-tenths of an inch in the fourth driest July on record, according to the National Weather Service office in Norton, Massachusetts.

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Jennifer Mcdermott, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022

Providence, Rhode Island had less than half an inch of rainfall in the third driest July on record, and Boston had six-tenths of an inch in the fourth driest July on record, according to the National Weather Service office in Norton, Massachusetts.

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Jennifer Mcdermott, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2022

Since fasts are eventually broken with lavish meals at dusk, demand for food commodities soars by up to a third, and waste, in turn, also multiplies.

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Eman Mounir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2022

But their insights are undone by an over-the-top, over-the-banister third act whose satirical targeting proves needlessly crude, more in terms of verbiage than violence.

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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022

Since its founding in 1988, the Lib Dems have played perpetual third fiddle to the U.K.’s dominant Conservative and Labour parties.

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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022

With Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea ports, the dates now take more than a week to move overland through Europe before crossing into western Ukraine, and cost up to a third more.

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New York Times, 25 July 2022

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Housing is considered affordable if people are spending up to a third of their incomes on housing costs, and rental housing tends to be more accessible for people with lower-incomes.

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Hartford Courant, 30 Aug. 2022

To be sure, well-being evaluations conducted to date do suggest that up to a third of LIS patients report being severely unhappy.

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Jonathan Moens, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022

One third of the animal’s meat goes to the needy; another third of the meat is distributed to family, friends and neighbors; and the last third of the meat is used at home.

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Manal Aman, Woman’s Day, 7 June 2022

The last third of the film focuses on a subset of the passengers and crew, who wash up on an island and quickly realize that none of them has the skills to last even a few days in the wild.

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Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 May 2022

The last third of the film plays like a thriller and then a tragedy.

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Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2022

The last third of his life was spent mostly in Prouts Neck, a slip of land on the coast of Maine where his family had acquired property.

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Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022

The musician was covered in sweat – after removing his shirt in the last third of the show, Gillis glistened under the stage lights, pieces of confetti sticking to his back.

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Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022

Johnson went from a tie for 24th at the US Open to a tie for third at LIV Golf-Portland.

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Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022

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