third order

noun

variants often Third Order

1

: an organization composed of lay people living in secular society under a religious rule and directed by a religious order

2

: a congregation especially of teaching or nursing sisters affiliated with a religious order

Word History

First Known Use

1629, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for third order

• camcorder
• disorder
• recorder
• reorder
• suborder
• transborder
• boarder
• border
• corder
• warder