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thirty
[ thur-tee ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
- a symbol for this number, as 30 or XXX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Printing, Journalism. 30-dash.
- thirties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 30 through 39, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:
He works in the East Thirties. She must be in her thirties. The temperature was in the thirties yesterday.
adjective
- amounting to 30 in number.
thirty
/ ˈθɜːtɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three See also number
- a numeral, 30, XXX, etc, representing this number
- plural the numbers 30–39, esp the 30th to the 39th year of a person's life or of a century
- the amount or quantity that is three times as big as ten
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of 30 units
determiner
- amounting to thirty
thirty trees
- ( as pronoun )
thirty are broken
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of thirty1
Example Sentences
Thirty-six percent were in favor and 38 percent were opposed.
Thomas Sadoski should be the frontrunner to play every smarmy privileged thirty-something from now on.
I'm to be at his Universal bungalow at twelve-thirty for lunch, to meet him for the first time, going to see a man about a job.
By two-thirty on the first afternoon at his house, I long for a cup of coffee but feel awkward about asking.
Thirty-seven years later, that destiny remains largely unattained.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Within the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.
I doubt that thirty persons per day are carried into or brought out of it by all public conveyances whatever.
She began the study of drawing at the age of thirty, and her first attempt in oils was made seven years later.
The amount of the taxed costs is one hundred and thirty-three, six, four, Mr. Perker.
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