Lexic.us

Definition of Thirty

1. Adjective. Being ten more than twenty.

Definition of Thirty

1. a. Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

2. n. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.

Definition of Thirty

1. Numeral. The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) A rack of thirty beers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thirty

1. a number [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirty

Literary usage of Thirty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1903)
"CE—Mr. President, it seems to me that thirty-five makes a man wait rather ... 1 think thirty is the age which we should reach; but there is the objection ..."

2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"It was probably some ingenious fancy, of comparing the thirty tyrants of Rome with the thirty tyrants of Athens, that induced the writers of the Augustan ..."

3. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"13 IF Now three of the thirty cap-1 20 11 Also the valiant men of the armies were, ... ho was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the ..."

4. Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character: And Exhibiting by United States (1880)
"And be it farther enacted, That numbers one, four, seven, fi f teen, Certain other eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty,thirty-one, ..."

5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (2001)
"The " thirty " is not in Q, ; yet who wants to go back to that ? ... 1875) contends that apart from the Grave-digger's speech and the thirty years of the ..."

Other Resources: