terce

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/tɜːs/
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/tɜːs/ · /tɝːs/ (US)

Definition of terce

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
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noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
  2. (countable, uncountable)The service appointed for this hour.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

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Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

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