thirty

CEFRA1

/ˈθɜːti/

number · numeral

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number three times ten.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    A commercial lasting 30 seconds.

Examples

  • You look the way your father did thirty years ago.

  • You will be delayed for only thirty minutes at worst.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • [ˈθɝɾi]
  • /-tɪ/

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. A rack of thirty beers.

numeral

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

  • To conclude, here in tabular form is a summary of our ratings of espressos produced from thirty pod, capsule and disc blends.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The teacher said there are exactly blank students in the class, which is three times ten.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

number

From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).