tiers

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English

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tiers
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

tiers

  1. plural of tier

Verb

tiers

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tier

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

tiers c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of tier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tiers, terce, tierz, tierce, from Latin tertius.

Pronunciation

Adjective

French numbers (edit)
30
,  ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: trois
    Ordinal: troisième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème
    Multiplier: triple
    Fractional: tiers

tiers (feminine tierce, masculine plural tiers, feminine plural tierces)

  1. (dated) third
  2. third-party

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Noun

French numbers (edit)
,  ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: trois
    Ordinal: troisième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3e, (nonstandard) 3ème
    Multiplier: triple
    Fractional: tiers

tiers m (plural tiers)

  1. a third (one of three equal parts)
  2. a third-party (an outsider of a group)

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Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin tertius.

Adjective

tiers m (occasionally used with feminine nouns)

  1. third (3rd)

Declension

Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject tierss tierce tiers
oblique tiers tierce tiers
plural subject tiers tiercess tiers
oblique tierss tiercess tiers