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thir·ty

 (thûr′tē)
n. pl. thir·ties
1. The cardinal number equal to 3 × 10.
2. thirties
a. A decade or the numbers from 30 to 39: They settled down in their thirties. The temperature fell into the thirties.
b. often Thirties The decade from 30 to 39 in a century.
3. An indication of the end of a news story, usually written 30.
4. Sports The second point that is scored by one side in tennis.

[Middle English thritty, thirty, from Old English thrītig; see trei- in Indo-European roots.]

thir′ty adj. & pron.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.thirties - the time of life between 30 and 40thirties - the time of life between 30 and 40  
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
adulthood, maturity - the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
2.thirties - the decade from 1930 to 1939
decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years
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Translations
الثلاثيناتفي فَتْرَة الثلاثينيات من القَرْن
čtvrté desetiletímezi 30 a 40 stupnitřicátá léta
harmincasharmincas: a harmincas évek
fertugsaldurfjórîi áratugurinn
tridsiate roky
3.üncü-4.üncü asırlar30-40 dereceler30-40 yaşları arası

thirty

(ˈθəːti) noun
1. the number or figure 30.
2. the age of 30.
adjective
1. 30 in number.
2. aged 30.
ˈthirties noun plural
1. the period of time between one's thirtieth and fortieth birthdays.
2. the range of temperatures between thirty and forty degrees.
3. the period of time between the thirtieth and fortieth years of a century.
ˈthirtieth noun
1. one of thirty equal parts.
2. (also adjective) the last of thirty (people, things etc); the next after the twenty-ninth.
thirty-
having thirty (of something). a thirty-pound fine.
ˈthirty-year-old noun
a person or animal that is thirty years old.
adjective
(of a person, animal or thing) that is thirty years old.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in periodicals archive ?
Back to the Thirties Take us back to the Thirties, George, To a time when Britain was Great!
PEOPLE in their thirties are not being put off drastic career changes despite the pressures of mortgage payments and starting a family, research shows.
To put it another way, the National Cancer Institute estimates the current risk of breast cancer to be one in 2,525 for a woman in her thirties; if that risk were increased by 30 percent, it would mean one in 1,942 women would get breast cancer.