Definitions for thirties

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thirties thir·ty

Spelling: [thur-tee]

IPA: /ˈθɜr ti/

Thirties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in thirties (ehiirstt).

Definitions for thirties

noun

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
2. a symbol for this number, as 30 or XXX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. Printing, Journalism. 30-dash.
5. thirties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 30 through 39, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:

adjective

1. amounting to 30 in number.

Origin of thirties

before 900; Middle English thritty, Old English thrītig, equivalent to thrī three + -tig -ty¹; cognate with Dutch dertig, German dr

Examples for thirties

Now in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash.

One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the thirties.

Either one describes the bouts of anxiety single guys in their thirties feel about their marital status.

While in his thirties, he had an affair with the same 15-year-old girl whose body has recently been discovered buried in his yard.

This was frontier when we came here in the thirties; we belong here.

You're Mrs. Jim Palmer' . . . people in their thirties sometimes want to change the course of the ship.

Oh, sure, we were in our thirties, but who would have suspected that?

He was much younger than middle-aged, really—somewhere in his thirties.

These may be of any age from eighty odd to the bitter thirties.

A tall, fair man still in his thirties, had stopped and raised his hat.