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third-year

third-year

34 3.0
About the third year of a school or college course
  • adjective
  • /θɜrd jɪr/
  • US
translation icon : de tercer año
  • Henri Young was in his third year of rehabilitation.
  • a third-year student
  • third-year college student
  • third-year law student

So even after that happens, you go back for the third year.

Examples

  • On average, subjects were at the end of their third year in college.

    Academic text (1997)
  • I just finished my third year at Memphis State.

  • You should be able to do that in your second or third year.

  • Or is that something that they teach you... in the third year of law school?

  • Junko came to this town in May of her third year in high school.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The NYSCCS are now in their third year of implementation.

    Academic text (2015)
  • I was about to commence my third year at university, studying linguistics.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I'm a third-year student at UC Berkeley studying business and music.

  • Participants were recruited from a population of first, second, and third-year pharmacy students enrolled in the Cooperative Pharmacy Program.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I'm a third-year student at UC Berkeley studying business and music.

Synonyms

junior
vsthird-year
  • US
202 3.2

Relating to the third year of high school or college

is only about the year after the second, not the year before the final

How Advanced

fourth-year
  • US
11 3.1
third-year
  • US
34 3.0
second-year
  • US
46 2.4
first-year
170 3.0

Surface Forms

third-year positive

Morphology

third-year = third + year (transparent) = third + year

The adjective is a straightforward compound of the ordinal 'third' and 'year' indicating membership in the third year.

Etymology

Third-year is a simple compound of third ('number three') and year ('one year'). It means a student or course in the third year of study, like a 'junior' in some US colleges.