thirty

Meanings

1. 1
   num

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

   To conclude, here in tabular form is a summary of our ratings of espressos produced from thirty pod, capsule and disc blends.

2. 2
   noun

   A commercial lasting 30 seconds.

   […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.

3. 3
   adj

   being ten more than twenty

4. 4
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three

5. 5
   noun

   A rack of thirty beers.

Etymology

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