THIRTEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirteen mean? 

• THIRTEEN (noun)
  The noun THIRTEEN has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one

  Familiarity information: THIRTEEN used as a noun is very rare.

• THIRTEEN (adjective)
  The adjective THIRTEEN has 1 sense:

1. being one more than twelve

  Familiarity information: THIRTEEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

13; baker's dozen; long dozen; thirteen; XIII

Hypernyms ("thirteen" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• THIRTEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than twelve

Synonyms:

13; thirteen; xiii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Henderson has two children—girls of eleven and thirteen.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was eleven, and Cheese-Face was thirteen, and they both carried the Enquirer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That will make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On December 27, Jupiter will be in alignment with the Sun, forming the Luckiest Day of the Year, something that will not happen again until January 28, 2021, thirteen months from now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Why, with a week’s training you would be as good a man as ever. I don’t suppose you scale more than thirteen and a half?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have thirteen arrows yet, and if one of them fly unfleshed, then, by the twang of string!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Much might happen in thirteen weeks.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And here it may, perhaps, divert the curious reader, to give some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months, and thirteen days.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We’ve made at least ten knots, and we’re going twelve or thirteen now.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Thirteen years had passed away since Lady Elliot's death, and they were still near neighbours and intimate friends, and one remained a widower, the other a widow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)