Pronunciation
Adjective
third (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- The third tree from the left is my favorite.
- 3rd, 3d; III
- French: troisième, trois (in names of monarchs and popes; after the name; abbreviation III)
- German: dritte
- Italian: terzo, terza, terzo (in names of monarchs and popes), terza (after the name; abbreviation III)
- Portuguese: terceiro, terceira, (rarely) terço, terça
- Russian: тре́тий
- Spanish: tercero, tercer
Noun
third
- The person or thing in the third position.
- Jones came in third.
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- (uncountable) The 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. Also formerly known as a tierce.
- (gear) third gear
- (fractions) ⅓
- French: troisième, tiers
- German: Dritter, Dritte
- Italian: terzo
- Portuguese: terceiro
- Russian: тре́тий
- Spanish: tercero
- French: tiers
- German: Drittel, Drittel (Switzerland)
- Italian: terzo
- Portuguese: terço
- Russian: треть
- Spanish: tercio
Verb
third (thirds, present participle thirding; past and past participle thirded)
- (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been second#Verb|seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.
- German: dreiteilen
- Italian: atterzare
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