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Thirtieth

Thirtieth \Thir"ti*eth\, a. [From Thirty: cf. AS.

  1. Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

  2. Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirtieth

Thirtieth \Thir"ti*eth\, n. The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thirtieth

Middle English threttyth, from Old English þritigoða; see thirty + -th (1). Respelled 16c. to conform to new spelling of thirty.

Wiktionary
thirtieth

a. The ordinal form of the number thirty. n. 1 The person or thing in the thirtieth position. 2 One of thirty equal parts of a whole.

WordNet
thirtieth
  1. adj. coming next after the twenty-ninth in position [syn: 30th]

  2. n. position 30 in a countable series of things

Wikipedia
Thirtieth (tax)

The thirtieth or thirtieth customs was a tax on foreign trade in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Usage examples of "thirtieth".

For these reasons he proposed, that although the term of subscribing should be protracted till the thirtieth day of May, the encouragement of three pounds ten shillings per centum per annum should not be continued to the second subscribers longer than till the fifth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five.

Masilo, of the People of the Axe, to whom command was given to run with a message to Bulalio the Slaughterer, their chief, and to return on the thirtieth day.

For a moment he forgot to be amazed and incredulous that he stood in the Twenty-third Century and looked as if through a window into the Thirtieth, talking with the unborn descendant of his yet unconceived son.

That if any part of the national debt, incurred before last Michaelmas, redeemable by law, and carrying an interest of four per centum, should remain unsubscribed on or before the thirtieth day of May, the government should pay off the principal.

The first skirmish came shortly after midnight on the thirtieth when a dozen Waster scouts from the Horde ran into a Kencyr ten-command on wide patrol about a mile from the foot of the Mendelin Steps.

Once upon the level trail of the canyon bottom I whispered a word into the pointed ear before me, couched my lance, and crouched in the saddle as the thirtieth descendent of the first Red Lightning flattened in swift charge.

Every thirtieth Lantiff was an officer, apparently unarmed, and it was these officers who wielded the deadliest weapon, the tube of lens that some unsung Lantian len grinder had invented.

It was the Mesilla Valley, and Santa Anna signed it over on the thirtieth of December.

Host and the Horde are expected to reach Hurlen above the Cataracts around the thirtieth.

Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.

Then, after providing for the reduction of the settlements at the head of the Bay of Fundy, he sailed, with the rest of the fleet, for Boston, where he arrived triumphant on the thirtieth of May, bringing with him, as prisoners, the French governor, fifty-nine soldiers, and the two priests, Petit and Trouve.

They are frequently met with in Chile, in the Falkland Islands, and in all parts of America traversed by the thirtieth and fortieth parallels.

I took another one to the corner chair with the directional reading light, and I sipped while rereading computer printouts for the thirtieth time, trying to make a sensible pattern out of them.

Though they were three to four years off their thirtieth birthdays, Gaius Flavius Fimbria, Publius Annius and Gaius Marcius Censorinus were all elected quaestors and appointed immediately to the Senate, neither censor thinking it wise to protest.

She was there to put out fires on a Fantasma-produced Def Jam show and Bill very much wanted to see Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles play the brand-new MGM Grand on the thirtieth.