thirty
pronunciation
How to pronounce thirty in British English:
UK [ˈθɜːti]
How to pronounce thirty in American English:
US [ˈθɜːrti]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
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- Adjective:
- being ten more than twenty
Word Origin
- thirty (adj.)
- late 14c. metathesis of thritti, from Old English þritig, from þri, þreo "three" (see three) + -tig "group of ten" (see -ty (1)). Similar formation in Old Frisian thritich, Old Saxon thritig, Dutch dertig, Old High German drizzug, German dreissig. The Thirty Years' War (1842) was a religious power struggle waged 1618-48, mainly on German soil. The symbol -30- as printer and telegrapher's code to indicate the last sheet or line of copy or a dispatch is recorded from 1895. In 20c. jargon of newspaper journalism, it came to be a traditional sign-off signal and slang word for "the end."
Example
- 1. Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories or more .
- 2. These are seventy dollars and those are thirty dollars .
- 3. An experimental innovator would go back to haiti thirty times .
- 4. But in thirty years , only seven acres have been uncovered .
- 5. Thirty years later , it was covered with trees .