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third

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Etymology

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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.

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  UK

  )

  enPR:

  thûd

  , IPA(key):

  /θɜːd/

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  US

  )

  enPR:

  thûrd

  , IPA(key):

  /θɝd/

• Audio (US)

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  NYC

  )

  IPA(key):

  /t̪ɔɪd/

• Rhymes:

  -ɜː(ɹ)d

Adjective

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third (not comparable)

1. 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:

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     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

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Noun

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third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)

1. The person or thing in the third position.

   Jones came in third.

2. One of three equal parts of a whole.

   He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

3. (

   uncountable

   )

   The third gear of a gearbox.

   Now put it into third.

4. (

   music

   )

   An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

   They sing in thirds.

5. (

   baseball

   )

   third base

   The play ended with Jones standing on third.

6. (

   golf

   )

   A handicap of one stroke every third hole.

7. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme

8. (

   archaic

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   One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.

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one of three equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: ثُلْث

  m

  (

  ṯulṯ

  )

• Armenian: երրորդ(hy)

  (

  errord

  )

• Asturian: terciu(ast)

  m

• Basque: heren(eu)
• Belarusian: траці́на

  f

  (

  tracína

  )

• Breton: trederenn(br)

  f

• Bulgarian: третина

  f

  (

  tretina

  )

• Catalan: tercer(ca)

  m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三分之一

  (

  sān fēn zhī yī

  )

• Czech: třetina(cs)

  f

• Danish: tredjedel

  c

• Dutch: derde(nl)

  n

• Esperanto: triono(eo)
• Estonian: kolmandik
• Finnish: kolmannes(fi)kolmasosa(fi)
• French: tiers(fr)

  m

• Galician: terzo

  m

• Georgian: მესამედი

  (

  mesamedi

  )

• German: Drittel(de)

  n

  , Drittel(de)

  m

  (

  Switzerland

  )

• Greek: τρίτο(el)

  n

  (

  tríto

  )

  Ancient: τρίτον

  n

  (

  tríton

  )

• Haitian Creole: tyè
• Hawaiian: hapakolu
• Hindi: तिहाई(hi)

  m

  (

  tihāī

  )

  , तीहा(hi)

  m

  (

  tīhā

  )

• Hungarian: harmad(hu)
• Icelandic: þriðjungur

  m

• Interlingua: tertio
• Irish: trian(ga)

  m

  , treana

  m pl

• Italian: terzo(it)

  m

• Japanese: 三分の一

  (

  さんぶんのいち, sanbun no ichi

  )

• Khmer: មួយភាគបី

  (

  muəy pʰiek bəy

  )

  , ត្រីភាគ

  (

  trəy pʰiek

  )

• Korean: 분 의 1

  (

  3bunui 1

  )

  , 삼분의 일

  (

  sambunui il

  )

• Latin: triens

  f

• Latvian: trešdaļa

  f

• Lithuanian: trečdalis

  m

• Macedonian: третина

  f

  (

  tretina

  )

• Maltese: terz
• Maori: hautoru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tredel(no)

  m

  , tredjedel(no)

  m

  Nynorsk: tredel

  m

  , tredjedel

  m

• Occitan: tèrç(oc)
• Persian: سیک(fa)

  (

  siyak, seyek

  )

  , سه‌یک

  (

  se-yek

  )

• Polish: trzecia(pl)

  f

• Portuguese: terço(pt)

  m

• Romanian: treime(ro)

  f

• Russian: треть(ru)

  f

  (

  tretʹ

  )

  , одна) третья (часть)

  (

  (odna) tretʹja (častʹ)

  )

• Scottish Gaelic: trian

  m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трећина

  f

  Roman: trećina(sh)

  f

• Slovak: tretina

  f

• Slovene: tretjina(sl)

  f

• Spanish: tercio(es)

  m

• Swedish: tredjedel(sv)
• Tagalog: sangkatlokatlosaikatlo
• Tamil: மூன்றிலொரு

  (

  mūṉṟiloru

  )

• Ukrainian: трети́на

  f

  (

  tretýna

  )

• Vietnamese: phần ba
• Yiddish: דריטל

  n

  (

  dritl

  )

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third gear

third gear

interval

• Afrikaans: terts
• Bulgarian: те́рца

  f

  (

  térca

  )

• Catalan: tercera(ca)

  f

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三度(zh)

  (

  sāndù

  )

• Czech: tercie(cs)

  f

• Danish: terts

  c

• Dutch: terts(nl)

  f

• Esperanto: trito(eo)tercio(eo)
• Estonian: terts
• Finnish: terssi(fi)
• French: tierce(fr)

  f

• German: Terz(de)

  f

• Hungarian: terc
• Icelandic: þríund

  f

• Irish: tréach

  m

• Italian: terza(it)

  f

• Japanese: 三度(ja)

  (

  さんど, sando

  )

• Lithuanian: tercija

  f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ters

  m

  Nynorsk: ters

  m

• Occitan: tèrça(oc)

  f

• Polish: tercja(pl)

  f

• Portuguese: terça(pt)

  f

• Russian: те́рция(ru)

  f

  (

  tɛ́rcija

  )

• Slovene: têrca

  f

• Spanish: tercera(es)

  f

• Swedish: ters(sv)

  c

• Ukrainian: те́рція

  f

  (

  tércija

  )

— see

third base

third base

Verb

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third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)

1. (

   informal

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   To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.

2. To divide into three equal parts.

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agree with a proposition

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