- 3rd
- Today is the third (of May).
- the third century BC
- It's her third birthday.
- My office is on the third floor.
- It's the third time that I've been to America.
- Her mother had just given birth to another child, her third.
- the world’s third-largest oil exporter
- He finished third in the race.
- Edward III (= Edward the Third)
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- middle
- final
- …
- divide something into
- third of
- about a third
- almost a third
- at least a third
- …
Word OriginOld English thridda, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch derde and German dritte, also to three. The spelling thrid was dominant until the 16th cent. (but thirdda is recorded in Northumbrian dialect as early as the 10th cent.).Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See third in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythird time lucky
(US English third time is the charm)
- used when you have failed to do something twice and hope that you will succeed the third timeTopics Successc2
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