THIRTIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirties mean? 

• THIRTIES (noun)
  The noun THIRTIES has 2 senses:

1. the time of life between 30 and 40

2. the decade from 1930 to 1939

  Familiarity information: THIRTIES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTIES (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 ("thirties" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("thirties" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The decade from 1930 to 1939

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1930s; thirties

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

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

 Context examples 

If you need to wait, consider having your eggs frozen while you are still in your twenties or early thirties.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The disease can affect men and women of any age, but it usually strikes in your thirties, forties or fifties.

(Osteonecrosis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

The ability to grow new egg cells may have significant implications for women in Western societies, many of whom postpone childbearing to establish careers, sometimes into their late thirties or forties.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

The letters about this question—mainly from readers in their late thirties—are heartbreaking.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)