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noun (plural: thirds)
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the third position.
- Jones came in .
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- He ate a of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- (not used in the plural) The third gear of an engine.
- Now put it into .
- (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 .
Translations: - French: tiers
- French, tiers
- Italian: terzo
adjective
- The ordinal number, ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- The tree from the left is my favorite.
Translations: - Dutch: derde (abbreviations 3de, 3e)
- French: troisième (before the noun) (abbreviation 3ème); (in names of monarchs and popes) trois (after the name) (abbreviation III)
- German: dritte (abbreviation 3.)
- Italian: terzo , terza (abbreviations 3º , 3ª ); (in names of monarchs and popes) terzo , terza (after the name) (abbreviation III)
- Spanish: tercero (abbreviation 3º)
Etymology: íridda
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