THIRD

third, rd, tertiary

(adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

third, thirdly

(adverb) in the third place; “third we must consider unemployment”

third

(noun) the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; “a simple harmony written in major thirds”

third, one-third, tierce

(noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; “it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement”

third

(noun) following the second position in an ordering or series; “a distant third”; “he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

third (not comparable)

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

Synonyms

• 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III

Noun

third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)

The person or thing in the third position.

One of three equal parts of a whole.

(uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.

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

(baseball) third base

(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.

Synonyms

• (gear): third gear

• (fractions): ⅓

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.

Anagrams

• drith, thrid

Source: Wiktionary

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Third, a. Etym: [OE. thirde, AS. , fr. , , three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction, Tierce.]

1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer.

2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. Third estate. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers état. See Tiers état. Third order (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, n., 1.

– Third person (Gram.), the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7.

– Third sound. (Mus.) See Third, n., 3.

Third, n.

1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.

3. (Mus.)

Definition: The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

4. pl. (Law)

Definition: The third part of the estate of a deseased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. Major third (Mus.), an interval of two tones.

– Minor third (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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