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thirty

[ thur-tee ]

noun

plural thirties.
  1. a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 30 or XXX.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. Printing, Journalism. 30-dash.
  5. 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

  1. amounting to 30 in number.

thirty

/ ˈθɜ˳Ùɪ /

noun

  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three See also number
  2. a numeral, 30, XXX, etc, representing this number
  3. plural the numbers 30–39, esp the 30th to the 39th year of a person's life or of a century
  4. the amount or quantity that is three times as big as ten
  5. something representing, represented by, or consisting of 30 units
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

determiner

    1. amounting to thirty

      thirty trees

    2. ( as pronoun )

      thirty are broken

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of thirty1

before 900; Middle English thritty, Old English ³Ù³ó°ùÄ«³Ù¾±²µ, equivalent to ³Ù³ó°ùÄ« three + -tig -ty 1; cognate with Dutch dertig, German dreissig, Old Norse ³Ù³ó°ùÂáÄå³ÙÄ«³Ü
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of thirty1

Old English ³Ù³ó°ùÄ«tig; see three , -ty 1
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Example Sentences

"When girls were denied education, my sister's dream of becoming a heart surgeon was crushed, significantly affecting her wellbeing", says Hamid, who is in his early thirties.

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"We've changed fridges three times in the last thirty years and every time Newcastle came close to winning something I was going to open it," he said.

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The three, all in their late thirties or early forties, said they had fought in Burkina Faso multiple times since 2018.

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"About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox," Isenstadt wrote in the book due out this March.

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What is clear when speaking to Edberg is how the top players now feel no psychological barrier to winning in their thirties.

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How Do You Spell 30?

Spelling tips for 30

The word thirty (30) is hard to spell because it doesn’t simply combine the spelling of the base number (three) with the suffix -ty, as is done in other easy-to-remember spellings like sixty and seventy.ÌýÌý

How to spell thirty: When three is combined with suffixes, it transforms from three (a cardinal number) to third (an ordinal number).Then, the d is dropped: thirteen (not thirdteen); thirty (not thirdty). Remember: there’s no d in thirty.

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