1. Adjective
Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
2. Adjective
Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
3. Noun
The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
4. Noun
The sixtieth part of a second of time.
5. Noun
The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
6. Noun
The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
7. Noun
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
8. Noun
following the second position in an ordering or series; "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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