third

CEFRA1

/θɜːd/

number · adjective · noun

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01
number
The position after second and before fourth.
02
number
Extra detail
One of three equal parts of a whole.

Examples

A third party makes off with the profits.
She finished in third place during the annual swimming competition yesterday.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 3

Also pronounced

/tʊːɹd/
/θeːd/

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number

Extra meaning

The person or thing in the third position.

adjective

Extra meaning

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

noun

Extra meaning

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

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In context

Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it.
He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
The third tree from the left is my favorite.

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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[…]
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,...
“Congress took the lead on putting the HBCU funding in those bills and passing them. The third COVID-19 bill, passed under President Biden, included as much funding for HBCUs as both of the first two Covid-19 bills under President Trump,” he said.
2024 July 1, Chandelis Duster, “Biden and Trump touted what they’ve done for HBCUs at CNN’s debate. Here’s what their records show”, in CNN
Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNN
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.
2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19
[…] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.
1994, John David North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, page xxi

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Origin

number

PIE word *tréyes 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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He finished the race in blank place, just behind the top two runners.