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tertiary sources

tertiary sources is the plural of tertiary source.

Meaning of tertiary source

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

Questions about tertiary sources

What is tertiary sources the plural of?
Tertiary sources is the plural of tertiary source.

Words near tertiary sources in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tertiary sources (page history and authors); 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.

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