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thirtiest


noun, plural thir·ties.

  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: He works in the East Thirties. She must be in her thirties. The temperature was in the thirties yesterday.

adjective

  1. amounting to 30 in number.

noun plural -ties

  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and threeSee also number (def. 1)
  2. a numeral, 30, XXX, etc, representing this number
  3. (plural) the numbers 30–39, esp the 30th to the 39th year of a person’s life or of a century
  4. the amount or quantity that is three times as big as ten
  5. something representing, represented by, or consisting of 30 units

determiner

    1. amounting to thirtythirty trees
    2. (as pronoun)thirty are broken

early 15c. metathesis of Old English þritig, from þri, þreo “three” + -tig “group of ten” (see -ty (1)). Cf. Old Frisian thritich, Old Saxon thritig, Dutch dertig, Old High German drizzug, German dreissig. 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 journalism, it came to be a traditional sign-off signal and slang word for “the end.”

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