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third

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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.

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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.

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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.

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