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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirties

Thirty \Thir"ty\, n.; pl. Thirties.

  1. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.

  2. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thirties

1827 as the years of someone's life between 30 and 39; 1830 as the fourth decade of years in a given century. See thirty.

Wiktionary
thirties

alt. 1 (plural of thirty English) 2 (context pluralonly English) A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939. 3 (context pluralonly English) The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39. 4 (context temperature rates pluralonly English) The range between 30 and 39. n. 1 (plural of thirty English) 2 (context pluralonly English) A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939. 3 (context pluralonly English) The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39. 4 (context temperature rates pluralonly English) The range between 30 and 39.

WordNet
thirties
  1. n. the time of life between 30 and 40 [syn: mid-thirties, thirty-something]

  2. the decade from 1930 to 1939 [syn: 1930s]

Usage examples of "thirties".

Well, men's hairstyles are somewhat different in the Thirties, as I'm sure you'll remember.

The tray held the potential contents of his Thirties pockets and a wristwatch, leather-strapped and ticking.

He was a quarter Chinese, in his middle thirties, and with the strength a veterinarian needed.

Guntersville Lake, formed when the TVA had dammed the Tennessee River back in the thirties, was both long and wide, irregularly shaped, curving back and forth, with hundreds of inlets.

His age could be anywhere from fifty on down, but since he wanted children she thought he would be younger – probably in his thirties or early forties.

He was probably in his thirties, way too old, but he was really muscular and the expression in those hot blue eyes made her think he must know some really nasty things.

The waitress, a tired-looking Hispanic woman in her late thirties, came by every so often.

She didn't need much sleep, so even though she didn't party nearly as hearty as she had when she was younger – say, in her thirties – she seldom went to bed before one A.

She guessed his age to be close to her own, late thirties, possible early forties.

It was her husband's studio in the early thirties, and it's the house where the two of them lived together.

Now he could make out a handful of antique cars, of thirties vintage, in the shrunken and unpaved parking lot beside El Tovar.

The young woman was garbed in a thirties dress, and a wide-brimmed gardening hat.

Unlike paintings, carved stone is very difficult to date, so the buyers just assume these items were done in the thirties, or even earlier.

Wellsuntil the nineteen thirties, when the Depression quickly put an end to the most naïve hopes for the future.

His heyday came in the thirties, and his popularity seems to have rivaled that of a present-day pop star.