Definitions For Third

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)
  • The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
  • The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
  • The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
  • One of three equal parts of a divisible whole
  • Following the second position in an ordering or series

adjective

  • Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

adverb

  • In the third place

verb

  • Something that is third : the third thing in a series
  • One of three equal parts of something
  • The third forward gear or speed of a vehicle

Is Third a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
8

The word Third is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Third in a Sentence

  • We sat in the third row.
  • The third house on the left
  • C is the third letter in the alphabet.
  • The win was his third of the year.
  • A third of the pie
  • Rent costs two-thirds of my paycheck.

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