thirties

Speech parts

1. thirties - Noun

2. thirties - Adjective

Meaning

of Thirty

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

1930s thirty-something mid-thirties shogun about over year around approximately aged residence birthday thirty thirtieth years
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Antonyms

plumb dead

Hypernyms

decade decennary decennium time of life

Phrases with the word

the dirty thirties in his thirties

Examples

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. F. Scott Fitzgerald

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life. Alice Munro

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. Beth Henley

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. Catherine Helen Spence

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties. Kenneth Boulding

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. Sonny Rollins

Close letter words and terms

thirteenth grade thirteenth grader thirteenthly thirtieth thirtiethly thirty