thirties

[thur-tee]

thir·ty

[thur-tee] noun, plural thir·ties, adjective
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: He works in the East Thirties. She must be in her thirties. The temperature was in the thirties yesterday.
adjective
6.
amounting to 30 in number.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English thritty, Old English thrītig, equivalent to thrī three + -tig -ty1; cognate with Dutch dertig, German dreissig, Old Norse thrjātīu
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thirties

noun
1. the time of life between 30 and 40 
2. the decade from 1930 to 1939 
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