third
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɜːd/
enpr: thûrd
ipa: /θɚd/
ipa: /θɪɹd/
ipa: /θøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θeːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /θɛːd/
ipa: /tʊːɹd/
ipa: /t̪ɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: turd (th-stopping)
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.
Senses: examples: text: The third tree from the left is my favorite.
text: 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[…]
ref: 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:
text: “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.
ref: 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:
glosses: The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
Synonyms: 3rd
3d
IIIrd
III
tertiary
Derived terms: adult third culture kid
Earth's third pole
Newton's third law
petty officer third class
safe third country
third-act breakup
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 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