Word.ws English Dictionary

tertiary source

tertiary source noun: a selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both.

Noun

tertiary source (plural tertiary sources)

  1. (general scholarship and historiography) A selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both.
    Synonyms:
    tertiary work

tertiary source meaning in Thai

tertiary source in Thai

selection, distillation, summary or compilation
แหล่งข้อมูลตติยภูมิ

Synonyms of tertiary source

Forms of tertiary source

pluraltertiary sources

Questions about tertiary source

What does tertiary source mean?
Tertiary source means a selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both.
What is tertiary source in Thai?
Tertiary source in Thai is แหล่งข้อมูลตติยภูมิ. See Tertiary source meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is tertiary source?
Tertiary source is a noun.
What is the plural of tertiary source?
The plural of tertiary source is tertiary sources.

Words near tertiary source in the dictionary

  1. tertiary phosphines
  2. tertiary planet
  3. tertiary planets
  4. tertiary sector
  5. tertiary sectors
  6. tertiary source
  7. tertiary sources
  8. tertiary storage
  9. tertiary storages
  10. tertiary structure
  11. tertiary structures

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tertiary source (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tertiary source.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tertiary_source. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.