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third
Part of speech: AdjectiveThe next after the second; the ordinal of three; denoting one of three equal parts.
Part of speech: NounOne of three equal parts; a third part of anything; in music, an interval of three diatonic steps.
Usage examples "third":- The third time it could not go on. - "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903", Lucy Maud Montgomery.
- This is the third time he has been here since I have come, and I have not had a real talk with him yet or made much of him. - "Uncle Vanya", Anton Checkov.
- And that third person could only have come in through the window. - "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.