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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number three in a series.
  2. noun One of three equal parts.
  3. noun Music An interval of three degrees in a diatonic scale.

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  • Two other series of its literary articles have also been republished in book form, while the first portion of a third is already in press No more conclusive facts need be alleged to prove the excellence of the contributions to the CONTINENTAL, or their extraordinary popularity; and its conductors are determined that it shall not fall behind. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • And the third was a blubber-lipped, weazen-faced skeleton of a negro. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
  • The first, for example, of the four 'Moral Epistles,' is addressed to Cobham, who laid out the famous garden at Stowe, in which 'Capability Brown,' the most popular landscape gardener of the century, was brought up; the third is addressed to Bathurst, an enthusiastic gardener, who had shown his skill at his seat of Richings near Colnbrook; and the fourth to Burlington, whose house and gardens at Chiswick were laid out by Kent, the famous landscape gardener and architect--Brown's predecessor. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
  • They soon found an opening which proved to be the right one, though a third was afterwards found to exist further along the circular wall of the cavern. —  The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific
  • At the close of the century a third was added, after the Crimean War a fourth, and after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 a fifth. —  The Governments of Europe
 

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  1. Middle English thridde, therdde, third, from Old English thridda; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. thrid; from Middle English thirde, thyrde, thryd, thridde, thredde, from Anglo-Saxon thridda (Old Northumbrian thirda, thirdda) = Old Saxon thriddio = Dutch derde = Middle Low German dridde, drudde, Low German drudde = Old High German dritto, Middle High German G. dritte = Icelandic thridhi, thridhja = Swedish Danish tredie = Gothic (Moesogothic) thridja = Welsh tryde = Gaelic treas = Latin tertius (later Italian terzo = Spanish tercio = Portuguese terço = Old French tiers, ters, French tiers, later English tierce, terce) = Greek τρίτος (with slightly different suffix) = Sanskrit tritīya, third; with ordinal formative -th later -d (see -th), from the cardinal, Anglo-Saxon threó, etc., three: see three. From the L. form are ult. English terce, tercel, tierce, etc., tertian, tertiary, etc.
  2. from third, a.
  3. A transposed form of thread, thrid.
 

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