| / English Dictionary |
THIRTY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("thirty" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than twenty
Synonyms:
30; thirty; xxx
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Dear Miss Woodhouse, he would be thirty years old!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Thirty times have I journeyed it, forward and backward, and, by the twang of string!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I’ve had ’em in fourteen actions, and up to thirty yards you couldn’t wish a better tool.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perhaps the eldest Miss Larkins may be about thirty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At Ferndean, a manor-house on a farm he has, about thirty miles off: quite a desolate spot.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
How quiet and sweet and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be more than thirty feet down.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that I intended making the shears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Clinical manifestations of carcinoid syndrome occur in approximately thirty percent of patients with insular carcinoid tumor.
(Ovarian Carcinoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical manifestations of carcinoid syndrome occur in approximately thirty percent of patients.
(Ovarian Insular Carcinoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
