third

third is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses

Definitions

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. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

   "he is playing third"

8. noun. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball

   "he was cut down on a close play at third"

9. noun. the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle

   "you shouldn't try to start in third gear"

10. noun. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it

    "a simple harmony written in major thirds"

11. noun. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

    "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

    Synonyms: tierce

12. 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"

13. adjective. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

    Synonyms: rd, tertiary

14. adverb. in the third place

    "third we must consider unemployment"

    Synonyms: thirdly

Synonyms

tierce, rd, tertiary, thirdly

Common word forms

thirds, thirdly, thirdness

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