I’m planning to leave on the third (=the third day of the month).thirdthird1 /θɜːd $ θɜːrd/ ●●● W2 S2 adjective 
in the third century her third birthday2 third time lucky British English, (the) third time’s the charm American English spoken used when you have failed to do something twice and hope to be successful the third time—third pronoun: I’m planning to leave on the third (=the third day of the month).—thirdly adverb
WORD ORIGINthird1
Origin:
Old English thridda, thirddaEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- This is her third marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I’m planning to leave on the third (=the third day of the month).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES United currently lie second from bottom of the Premier League. The talks have now entered their third week. He finished second in the 100 metres, behind Ben Johnson. The company’s profits rose by 11% in the first quarter of the year. The home side took the lead in the second quarter.
I’m planning to leave on the third (=the third day of the month).· He was beaten into second place in the Monaco Grand Prix.
United currently lie second from bottom of the Premier League.· Stuart came second in the swimming competition.
(=the level at which you pass a degree at a British university)· She was awarded a first-class degree.
· The first edition was published in 1986.
The talks have now entered their third week. He finished second in the 100 metres, behind Ben Johnson.· The heavy traffic meant that we seldom got out of second gear.
· He put the car into gear, and they moved slowly forwards.
(=insurance that pays money to someone who is hurt or whose property is damaged by something you have done)· You are legally obliged to take out third-party insurance.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
The company’s profits rose by 11% in the first quarter of the year. The home side took the lead in the second quarter.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► first-rate/second-rate/third-rate► the third person► the third sector
1coming after two other things in a series: - Barcelona, having lost the 1961 and 1986 finals, hope it will be third time lucky.
- Everyone is praying that this time it will be third time lucky.
- Maybe he's out there thinking: third time lucky.
- Odds-on favourite last time at Haydock, he was narrowly beaten into third place, but tomorrow should prove third time lucky.
- A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.
- Deathtraps: Coroner's warning over second hand electrical goods.
- Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand, or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building.
- The Fourth Hand glides to a soft landing in Wisconsin, and readers will be left smiling.
- The leader takes a watch with a second hand, points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet.
- The second hand had its own dial at the bottom of the face.
- The story is now taken up at second hand.
- There is even a chapter on buying second hand - which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees.
- After his win in Frankfurt on Sunday, he lies second in the series just behind Michel Robert.
- Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru, McRae now lies third in the championship.
- But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident.
- But it's even more of a comfort for baby if he doesn't get wind in the first place.
- In the opening 250 race Robert Dunlop stayed well clear of a hectic battle for second place behind him.
- In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
- The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy's parents for letting him play there in the first place.
- There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place.
- We never enjoyed them in the first place.
- Why had they come to this country in the first place?
- All in all marriage was a pragmatic affair and individual desires came a poor second to the harmony of the group.
- Food was taking a poor second on my diet sheet this evening.
- It is true though, that where waters are absolutely saturated with maggots, even bread comes a poor second.
- Peter hit a poor drive and a poor second, to the right of a nasty greenside bunker.
- Saturn is a poor third, and Jupiter is dead last.
- The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system.
- The Socialists would come a poor second with 26.5%; the Communists could expect no more than 7%.
- They have a poor third quarter.
- I was just out with friends - you don't have to give me the third degree.
- Whenever one of my boyfriends came to the house, Dad would give them the third degree.
- And would Feargal now give him the third degree?
- Is it possible to get third-degree burns from a novelty cracker?
- She incurred shrapnel wounds as well as third-degree burns.
- She was hospitalized in a critical condition after suffering third-degree burns, and died 21 days later.
- Butch finally pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years.
- Members of the scheme also benefit from a third party insurance, for a premium of £2 a year.
- With some landowners now looking towards insisting on third party cover for climbers, insurance is increasingly looking indispensable.
- Better rewrite it in the third person.
- He writes of himself in the third person.
- Hint: He often refers to himself in the third person.
- I was angry to hear Steve talk about me in the third person.
- She speaks of herself not only in the third person, but in generic terms.
- She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly.
- Tennyson talks for Tithonus in the third person.
- With a fictional character, described in the third person, there is nothing that may not be said.
in the third century her third birthday2 third time lucky British English, (the) third time’s the charm American English spoken used when you have failed to do something twice and hope to be successful the third time—third pronoun: I’m planning to leave on the third (=the third day of the month).—thirdly adverb