THIRTIETH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirtieth mean? 

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

1. position 30 in a countable series of things

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

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

1. coming next after the twenty-ninth in position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTIETH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 30 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

• THIRTIETH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the twenty-ninth in position

Synonyms:

30th; thirtieth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

Hast forgotten that the five-and-thirtieth rule of the order is that in the presence of a woman the face should be ever averted and the eyes cast down?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man that the whole force has been seeking in vain—Colonel Sebastian Moran, who shot the Honourable Ronald Adair with an expanding bullet from an air-gun through the open window of the second-floor front of No. 427, Park Lane, upon the thirtieth of last month.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)