# third
## English
### Etymology

* 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /θɜːd/
* (US) enPR: thûrd, IPA: /θɝd/
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* (Scotland) IPA: /θɪɹd/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /θøːd/
* (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /θeːd/
* (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /θɛːd/
* (Ireland) IPA: /tʊːɹd/
* (New York City) IPA: /t̪ɔɪd/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
* Homophone: turd (th-stopping)

### 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 […]

#### Synonyms

* 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III

#### Derived terms

* adult third culture kid
* Earth's third pole
* Newton's third law
* petty officer third class
* third age
* third angle projection
* third art
* third baseman
* third best
* third camp
* third-campism
* third-campist
* third-class
* third class
* third-class citizen
* third-class entity
* third-class object
* third-class, third class
* third-class value
* third conditional
* third contact
* third cosmic velocity
* third country
* third cousin
* third cover
* third cranial nerve
* third-culture kid
* third culture kid
* third-degree
* third degree
* third-degree burn
* third-degree murder
* third-degree relative
* third dimension
* third down
* third estate
* third eye
* third finger
* third freedom rights
* third gender
* third grade
* third grader
* third-grader
* third-guarder
* third hand
* third-hand
* third-hand smoke
* third inversion
* third island chain
* third language acquisition
* third last
* third leg
* third lieutenant
* third-line forcing
* third man
* third market
* thirdness
* third normal form
* third officer
* third-order
* third order
* third order stream
* third partier
* third party
* third-party
* third-party claim
* third party processor
* third penny
* third-personal
* third-person dual
* third-person effect
* third-person plural
* third-person shooter
* third-person singular
* third place
* third position
* third rail
* third rate
* third-rate
* third reading
* third screen
* third sector
* third session
* third sex
* third shift
* third slip
* third space
* third spacing
* third stream
* third-string
* third string
* third-stringer
* third time is the charm
* third time lucky
* third time pays for all
* third time's a charm
* third time's the charm
* third to last
* third tonsil
* third umpire
* third ventricle
* third-wave coffee
* third-wave feminism
* third wave feminist
* third-wave feminist
* third-waver
* third way
* third wheel
* third-wheel
* third-world
* third world
* third year

#### Translations
### 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.

#### Synonyms

* (gear): third gear
* (fractions): third part, ⅓

#### Derived terms

* augmented third
* centre third
* diminished third
* goal third
* lower third
* neutral third
* one third
* one-third
* Picardy third
* rule of thirds
* two-thirds
* two thirds
* two thirds, two-thirds, twothirds

#### Related terms

* riding

#### Translations
### 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.

#### Related terms

* major third
* minor third
* third gear
* third person

#### Translations
### See also

* interval

### Anagrams

* drith, thrid

## Scots
### 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.

### Adjective

third
* third

### References

* “thrid, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “third, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.