thirty
//ˈθɜːti//
Forms
- Plural
- thirties
Definitions
1.A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
- I never drove a car until I was thirty.
- This train left Aomori thirty minutes late, so we won't arrive at Tokyo before noon, I'm afraid.
2.A rack of thirty beers.(slang)
- I never drove a car until I was thirty.
- This train left Aomori thirty minutes late, so we won't arrive at Tokyo before noon, I'm afraid.
1.The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.
- To conclude, here in tabular form is a summary of our ratings of espressos produced from thirty pod, capsule and disc blends.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3134
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of thritty, from Old English þrītiġ, þrittiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty.