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THIRTY-SOMETHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-something mean? 

THIRTY-SOMETHING (noun)
  The noun THIRTY-SOMETHING has 1 sense:

1. the time of life between 30 and 40play

  Familiarity information: THIRTY-SOMETHING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THIRTY-SOMETHING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of life between 30 and 40

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something

Hypernyms ("thirty-something" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Holonyms ("thirty-something" is a part of...):

adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)


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