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thirty

noun · num · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːti/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: thŭr′tē
  • General-American: /ˈθɝti/
  • General-American: [ˈθɝɾi]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /θɪɾte/
  • Scotland: /-tɪ/
  • Scotland: /-ti/
  • New-Zealand, Wales: /θøːti/
  • /θeːti/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
  • /θɛːti/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
  • rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)ti
  • CMU ARPABET: TH ER1 D IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: TH ER1 T IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A rack of thirty beers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A commercial lasting 30 seconds.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: broadcasting, media

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

num

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: triacontad

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

being ten more than twenty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 30, xxx

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 30, XXX

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of thritty, from Old English þrītiġ, þrittiġ (“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”).

Across languages

Translations

209 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: dertig — cardinal number
  • Dupaningan Agta: tallupulu — cardinal number
  • Albanian: tridhjetë — cardinal number
  • Northern Altai: отыс (otïs) — cardinal number
  • Southern Altai: одус (odus) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: ሠላሳ (śälasa) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: ፴) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: ثَلَاثِينَ (ṯalāṯīna) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: ثَلَاثُونَ (ṯalāṯūna) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: ٣٠ — cardinal number
  • Arabic: تلاتين (talatīn) — cardinal number
  • Aragonese: trenta — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: תלתין (tlāthīn) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܬܠܬܝܢ (tlāthīn) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: երեսուն (eresun) — cardinal number
  • Aromanian: treidzãts — cardinal number
  • Aromanian: treidzãtsi — cardinal number
  • Aromanian: tridzãts — cardinal number
  • Assamese: ত্রিছ — cardinal number
  • Asturian: trenta — cardinal number
  • Avar: лъеберго (lsebergo) — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: otuz — cardinal number
  • Bashkir: утыҙ (utıź) — cardinal number
  • Basque: hogeita hamar — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: тры́ццаць (trýccacʹ) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: ত্রিশ (triś) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: তিরিশ (tiriś) — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: tulompulo — cardinal number
  • Breton: tregont — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: три́десет (trídeset) — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: три́йсет (tríjset) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: သုံးဆယ် (sum:hcai) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: ၃၀ — cardinal number
  • Carpathian Rusyn: три́дцять (trýdcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: trenta — cardinal number
  • Chamorro: trenta — cardinal number
  • Chechen: ткъе итт (tqʼe itt) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪ ᏐᏁᎳ (talisgo sonela) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: makumi atatu — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 三十 (saam1 sap6) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 卅 (saa1) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 卅呀 (saa1 aa6) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 三十 (sānshí) — cardinal number
  • Wu Chinese: 三十 — cardinal number
  • Chuukese: inik — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вӑтӑр (văt̬ăr) — cardinal number
  • Maore Comorian: thalathini — cardinal number
  • Cornish: deg warn ugens — cardinal number
  • Crimean Tatar: otuz — cardinal number
  • Czech: třicet — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: tranta — cardinal number
  • Danish: tredive — cardinal number
  • Danish: tredve — cardinal number
  • Danish: treti — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ތިރީސް (tirīs) — cardinal number
  • Central Dusun: tolu nohopod — cardinal number
  • Dutch: dertig — cardinal number
  • Dzongkha: སུམ་ཅུ — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: tridek — cardinal number
  • Estonian: kolmkümmend — cardinal number
  • Farefare: pistã — cardinal number
  • Faroese: tretivu — cardinal number
  • Faroese: tríati — cardinal number
  • Fijian: tolusagavulu — cardinal number
  • Finnish: kolmekymmentä — cardinal number
  • French: trente — cardinal number
  • North Frisian: dörtig — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: tritich — cardinal number
  • Friulian: trente — cardinal number
  • Galician: trinta — cardinal number
  • Ge'ez: ሠላሳ (śälasa) — cardinal number
  • Georgian: ოცდაათი (ocdaati) — cardinal number
  • German: dreißig — cardinal number
  • Middle High German: drīȥic — cardinal number
  • Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (þreis tigjus) — cardinal number
  • Greek: τριάντα (triánta) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: τριάκοντα (triákonta) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: λ ́ — cardinal number
  • Gujarati: ત્રીસ (trīs) — cardinal number
  • Haitian Creole: trant — cardinal number
  • Hausa: talatin — cardinal number
  • Hawaiian: kanakolu — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשִׁים (shloshím) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: तीस (tīs) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: त्रिंशत् (triñśat) — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: harminc — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: þrjátíu — cardinal number
  • Ido: triadek — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: tiga puluh — cardinal number
  • Ingrian: koltkymment — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: trenta — cardinal number
  • Irish: tríocha — cardinal number
  • Middle Irish: trícha — cardinal number
  • Old Irish: trícho — cardinal number
  • Italian: trenta — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 三十 (sanjū) — cardinal number
  • Kannada: ಮೂವತ್ತು (mūvattu) — cardinal number
  • Karachay-Balkar: отуз (otuz) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: отыз (otyz) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: សាមសិប (saam səp) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ៣០ — cardinal number
  • Komi-Permyak: куимдас (kuimdas) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 서른 (seoreun) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 삼십 (samsip) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: سی (sî) — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: sî — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: sih — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: отуз (otuz) — cardinal number
  • Ladin: trenta — cardinal number
  • Ladino: טרינטה — cardinal number
  • Ladino: trenta — cardinal number
  • Lakota: wikčémna yámni — cardinal number
  • Lao: ສາມສິບ (sām sip) — cardinal number
  • Latin: trīginta — cardinal number
  • Latvian: trīsdesmit — cardinal number
  • Laz: ეჩიდოვით (eçidovit) — cardinal number
  • Lithuanian: trisdešimt — cardinal number
  • Livonian: kuolmkimdõ — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: trent — cardinal number
  • : ᦉᦱᧄᦉᦲᧇ (ṡaamṡiib) — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: drësseg — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: три́есет (tríeset) — cardinal number
  • Malay: tiga puluh — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: മുപ്പത് (muppatŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: tletin — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᡤᡡᠰᡳᠨ (gūsin) — cardinal number
  • Manx: jeih as feed — cardinal number
  • Māori: toru tekau — cardinal number
  • Marathi: तीस (tīs) — cardinal number
  • Middle English: thritty — cardinal number
  • Mokilese: jilihjek — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: гуч (guč) — cardinal number
  • Khiamniungan Naga: āusám — cardinal number
  • Classical Nahuatl: cempōhualli ommahtlāctli — cardinal number
  • Nauruan: ama — cardinal number
  • Navajo: tádiin — cardinal number
  • Norman: trente — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tredve — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tretti — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tretti — cardinal number
  • Occitan: trenta — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: nisimidana — cardinal number
  • Old Church Slavonic: триѥ дєсѧтє (trije desęte) — cardinal number
  • Old English: þrītiġ — cardinal number
  • Oromo: sodoma — cardinal number
  • Pashto: دېرش (derš) — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: dreissich — cardinal number
  • Persian: سی (si) — cardinal number
  • Polish: trzydzieści — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: trinta — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਤੀਹ (tīh) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: kimsa chunka — cardinal number
  • Réunion Creole French: trant — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: trènta — cardinal number
  • Romanian: treizeci — cardinal number
  • Romansh: trenta — cardinal number
  • Romansh: trainta — cardinal number
  • Russian: три́дцать (trídcatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Samoan: tolusefulu — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: त्रिंशत् (triṃśat) — cardinal number
  • Santali: ᱯᱮ ᱜᱮᱞ (pe gel) — cardinal number
  • Santali: ᱢᱤᱫ ᱤᱥᱤ ᱜᱮᱞ (mit’ isi gel) — cardinal number
  • Sardinian: trinta — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: deug air fhichead — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: trìthead — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: тридесет — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: trideset — cardinal number
  • Shan: သၢမ်သိပ်း (sǎam síp) — cardinal number
  • Sicilian: trena — cardinal number
  • Sinhalese: තිහ (tiha) — cardinal number
  • Slovak: tridsať — cardinal number
  • Slovene: trideset — cardinal number
  • Lower Sorbian: tśiźasća — cardinal number
  • Upper Sorbian: třiceći — cardinal number
  • Spanish: treinta — cardinal number
  • Swahili: thelathini — cardinal number
  • Swedish: trettio — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: tatlumpu — cardinal number
  • Tahitian: toru 'ahuru — cardinal number
  • Tajik: си (si) — cardinal number
  • Tatar: утыз (utız) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: ముప్ఫై (mupphai) — cardinal number
  • Thai: สามสิบ (sǎam-sìp) — cardinal number
  • Tigrinya: ሰላሳ (sälasa) — cardinal number
  • Tocharian B: täryāka — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: teti — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: tripela ten — cardinal number
  • Tongan: tolungofulu — cardinal number
  • Turkish: otuz — cardinal number
  • Turkmen: otuz — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: три́дцять (trýdcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: три́йцять (trýjcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Unami: xintxke — cardinal number
  • Urdu: تیس (tīs) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: ئوتتۇز (ottuz) — cardinal number
  • Uzbek: o‘ttiz — cardinal number
  • Venetan: trenta — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: ba mươi — cardinal number
  • Vilamovian: dresig — cardinal number
  • Volapük: kildeg — cardinal number
  • Volapük: kils — cardinal number
  • Welsh: trideg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: deg ar hugain — cardinal number
  • Welsh: tri deg — cardinal number
  • Written Oirat: ᡎᡇᡔᡅᠨ (ɣucin) — cardinal number
  • Yakut: отут (otut) — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: דרײַסיק (draysik) — cardinal number
  • Yucatec Maya: lajun tu kaʼakʼáal — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: yuinaq qula — cardinal number
Real reading context

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