THIRDLY

third, thirdly

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

thirdly (not comparable)

In the third place; third in a row.

Synonyms

• 3rdly

Source: Wiktionary


Third"ly, adv.

Definition: In the third place. Bacon.

THIRD

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 Ă©tat. See Tiers Ă©tat. 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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FATIGUE

(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”


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