Word.ws English Dictionary

third-party cookie

third-party cookie noun: a cookie set by a domain other than the one a user is directly visiting, used for purposes like cross-site tracking to show personalized ads based on a user's browsing history.

Noun

third-party cookie (plural third-party cookies)

  1. A cookie set by a domain other than the one a user is directly visiting, used for purposes like cross-site tracking to show personalized ads based on a user's browsing history.

Forms of third-party cookie

pluralthird-party cookies

Questions about third-party cookie

What does third-party cookie mean?
Third-party cookie means a cookie set by a domain other than the one a user is directly visiting, used for purposes like cross-site tracking to show personalized ads based on a user's browsing history.
What part of speech is third-party cookie?
Third-party cookie is a noun.
What is the plural of third-party cookie?
The plural of third-party cookie is third-party cookies.

Words near third-party cookie in the dictionary

  1. third-partied
  2. third-parties
  3. third-party
  4. third-party claim
  5. third-party claims
  6. third-party cookie
  7. third-party cookies
  8. third-party doctrine
  9. third-partying
  10. third-person dual
  11. third-person duals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: third-party cookie (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: “third-party cookie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/third-party_cookie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.