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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

तीसरा

Pronunciation / Transliteration: teesraa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Third/θɜːrd/
adjectivenounadverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #250 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह मेरी तीसरी कोशिश है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Constituting number three in a sequence; coming after second and before fourth.

    "She finished in third place in the marathon."
As noun
  1. 1

    One of three equal parts of a whole.

    "Cut the apple into thirds so everyone gets an equal share."
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Synonyms (2)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'þridda', stemming from Proto-Germanic '*þridjô', with roots in Proto-Indo-European '*tréyes' (three). Over centuries, the metathesis of the 'r' and vowel sound shifted 'þridda' into Middle English 'third', stabilizing across Germanic language branches to denote the ordinal position after second.

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