Phrase Hound found 238 phrases and 13 compound words that contain third. The most common are listed below. Open third in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 238
- third partySomeone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
- Third WorldThose countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
- third partiesplural of third party: Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
- third personThe words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
- one thirdrare spelling of one-third.
- third placeA social space separate from the two usual social environments of home (“first place”) and the workplace (“second place”), such as a bar or public library.
- third gradeThe period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade.
- Third quarter
- Third DayTuesday (the third day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).
- third yearUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, year.
- third degreeIntensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession
- third baseThe base after second base in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- third basemanThe infield defensive player that stands near third base.
- third readingIn the UK and various other countries, the final presentation of a bill (proposed legislation) to a parliament or legislature, or chamber thereof, which takes place after the bill has passed through all its necessary prior stages …
- Third PositionA neofascist political stance that opposes both capitalism and communism.
- major thirdA musical interval in Western music that is equal to or approximates a frequency ratio of 5/4. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of four standard semitones, spans three degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically …
- Third PeriodAccording to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.
- third classAlternative spelling of third-class.
- third countryUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, country. A country other than two specific countries, especially a country not party to an agreement between two other countries.
- third estateThe caste of commoners in France prior to 1789, as distinct from the nobility and clergy.
- third spaceA state or situation in which cultural distinctions do not apply, allowing one to transcend cultural assumptions.
- Third WayAlternative letter-case form of third way.
- third sexA third gender, a category of people who are not male or female, or whose sexual roles, anatomy, or identities place them outside of the established male and female categories.
- third dimensionthe quality, of depth or thickness, that differentiates a solid object from a two-dimensional image of it
- third wheelA person or thing that serves no useful purpose.
Compound words 13
- ridingpresent participle and gerund of ride
- ThirdspaceSpace as both a perceived and conceptualized phenomenon, both a physical locality and its meaning.
- thirdbornBorn as the third child to parent or family.
- thirdhandHaving been relayed by two intermediate sources.
- thirderWith regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/3.
- thirdnessThe quality of being or coming third.
- twothirdsRare spelling of two-thirds.
- thirdsmanA third party who acts as mediator.
- thirdersplural of thirder: With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/3.
- thirdingsplural of thirding: present participle and gerund of third