Thirty
['θɜːtɪ] or ['θɝti]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three.
(adj.) being ten more than twenty .
Typist: Sadie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.
(n.) The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.
Edited by Greg
Definition
adj. and n. three times ten.—adj. Thir′tieth the last of thirty.—n. a thirtieth part.
Editor: Lucia
Examples
- He's thirty-five to one! Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was still only thirty-three years of age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These thirty years after 1848 are years of very great interest to the student of international political methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was down for thirty-six days in the first six months. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He fell for five-and-thirty feet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Though her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back on her account, she had not lived above six-and-thirty hours after his return. Jane Austen. Emma.
- His body is now fourteen years of age, but his soul is already thirty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thirty at the utmost. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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