Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The cardinal number equal to 3 × 10.
- n. A decade or the numbers from 30 to 39: They settled down in their thirties. The temperature fell into the thirties.
- n. The decade from 30 to 39 in a century.
- n. An indication of the end of a news story, usually written 30.
- n. Sports The second point that is scored by one side in tennis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In printing and telegraphy, the last sheet, word, or line of copy or of a despatch.
- Being thrice ten, three times ten, or twenty and ten.
- n. The number which consists of three times ten.
- n. A symbol representing thirty units, as 30, XXX, or xxx.
Wiktionary
- n. The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.
- n. slang A rack of thirty beers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten.
- n. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.
- n. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
- adj. being ten more than twenty
Etymologies
- Old English þritiġ (Wiktionary)
- Middle English thritty, thirty, from Old English thrītig; see trei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I remember when I first heard the term thirty-five years ago when we were attending a”
“At last, after what he called thirty years of slavery, he was able to resign his post of critic.”
“The Richelieu Steamboat Company was {149} formed in 1845, and took its other title thirty years later, when it made its first great 'merger.”
“Mother Mayberry from Providence, who is the grand old woman of the whole valley, having established her claim to the title thirty years ago by taking up her dead doctor husband's practice and "riding saddlebags to suffering ever since," as she puts it, broke the feminine ice by rising from her seat by the side of one of the entranced Magnates, -- who had been so delighted with her and her philosophies that he could hardly do his dinner justice, -- and addressing the rally in her wonderful old voice with her white curls flying and her cheeks as pink as a girl's.”
“So how exactly did walt-the-ought run down the middle of the freeway, live-streaming himself, within thirty seconds of the vote?”
“(Given the various claims to the tune of “lose thirty pounds in thirty days,” one might easily be forgiven for not even realizing that there even were advertising standards.)”
“Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years”
“| Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years »”
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“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years:”
Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years
“« Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years |”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thirty’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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aliko's Words
deli, turkey, bodrum, deniz, sunny, seks, tatil, hava, zeeman, captain, kapitein, kaptan and 256 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Mnemonics: Days in the Month
(in order added)
thirty-one, have, rest, the, all, november, and, june, april, september, hath, days and 1 more...
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some words I like
lorem ipsum, amble, conjunctiva, ribaldry, pedestrian, floret, frith, philately, mercy, transpierced, wrist, codicil and 40 more...
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Number words
A list of some words for numbers (mostly cardinal numbers, but a few other important ones that have short descriptions).
aleph-one, aleph-null, infinity, googolplex, googol, trillion, billion, myllion, million, myriad, great gross, thousand and 43 more...
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My Words are Numbered
Names of numbers.
zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and 61 more...
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Tunie: Danny's All-Star Joint
by Rickie Lee Jones.
Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint
They got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, he stays in the back all day
But when the nighttime...pocket, business, lawn, street, fun, rules, hep-scat, be-bop, chicken, matzoh, girdle, magazine and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thirty.
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