THIRDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirdly mean? 

• THIRDLY (adverb)
  The adverb THIRDLY has 1 sense:

1. in the third place

  Familiarity information: THIRDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the third place

Synonyms:

third; thirdly

Context example:

third we must consider unemployment

 Context examples 

First, I wished to see whether her appearance accorded with Mrs. Fairfax's description; secondly, whether it at all resembled the fancy miniature I had painted of her; and thirdly—it will out!—whether it were such as I should fancy likely to suit Mr. Rochester's taste.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, I like many things better than money: first, I will have a bow that will bring down everything I shoot at; secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone dancing that hears me play upon it; and thirdly, I should like that everyone should grant what I ask.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At about this time, too, I made three discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curious disorder called the spazzums, which was generally accompanied with inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantly treated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in the temperature of my pantry, made the brandy-bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very greatly to my happiness; and thirdly—which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honour of calling patroness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Tom listened with some shame and some sorrow; but escaping as quickly as possible, could soon with cheerful selfishness reflect, firstly, that he had not been half so much in debt as some of his friends; secondly, that his father had made a most tiresome piece of work of it; and, thirdly, that the future incumbent, whoever he might be, would, in all probability, die very soon.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for yourself with the words: I am Doctor Knowall, and have that nailed up above your house-door.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy together; and fourthly, that the match might be broken off.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)