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English
Etymology
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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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.
2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141: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
third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)
- 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.
2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19:Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
- (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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person or thing in the third position
- Afrikaans: derde (af)
- Armenian: երրորդ (hy) (errord)
- Basque: hirugarren (eu)
- Belarusian: трэ́ці (be) (tréci)
- Bengali: তেসরা (bn) (teśora)
- Bulgarian: тре́ти (tréti)
- Catalan: tercer (ca)
- Czech: třetí osoba (cs) f
- Dutch: derde (nl)
- Finnish: kolmas (fi)
- French: troisième (fr) m or f, tiers (fr) m
- Galician: terceira f, terceiro (gl) m
- German: Dritter (de) m, Dritte (de) f
- Hungarian: harmadik (hu)
- Icelandic: þriðji m, þriðja f or n
- Interlingua: tertio m, tertia f
- Italian: terzo (it) m or f
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سێیەم (sêyem)
- Latin: tertius (la) m, tertia, tertia f, tertium
- Latvian: trešais (lv) m
- Lithuanian: trečias (lt) m, trečia f
- Macedonian: трет (tret), трети (treti)
- Maltese: terza m or f
- Occitan: tresen (oc)
- Polish: trzeci (pl) m, trzecia (pl) f
- Portuguese: terceiro (pt) m
- Romanian: cel de al treilea m or n, cea de a treia f
- Russian: тре́тий (ru) (trétij)
- Spanish: tercero (es)
- Swedish: tredje (sv), trea (sv) c
- Turkish: üçüncü (tr)
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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 (gl) 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: 3분의 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 f
- Slovak: tretina f
- Slovene: tretjina (sl) f
- Spanish: tercio (es) m
- Swedish: tredjedel (sv)
- Tagalog: sangkatlo, katlo, saikatlo
- Tamil: மூன்றிலொரு (mūṉṟiloru)
- Ukrainian: трети́на f (tretýna)
- Vietnamese: phần ba
- Yiddish: דריטל n (dritl)
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Verb
third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)
- (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.
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