thirteen
UK/ˌθɜːˈtiːn//ˌθɝtˈtin/
thirteen numeral: the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
Numeral
thirteen
- The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
- There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.
- His brother's age is thirteen.
- Synonyms:
- baker's dozen, long dozen, throtteen
Noun
thirteen (plural thirteens)
thirteen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thirteen in Hindi
- the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen
- तेरह terah
thirteen in Tamil
- the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen
- பதின்மூன்று patiṉmūṉṟu
thirteen in Marathi
- the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen
- तेरा terā
thirteen in Urdu
- the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen
- تیرہ terah
More languagesFewer languages
- thirteen in Bengali
- তেরো terō
- thirteen in Telugu
- పదమూడు padamūḍu
- thirteen in Malayalam
- പതിമൂന്ന് patimūnnŭ
- thirteen in Kannada
- ಹದಿಮೂರು hadimūru
- thirteen in Punjabi
- ਤੇਰਾਂ terā̃
- thirteen in Gujarati
- તેર ter
- thirteen in Odia
- ତେର tera
- thirteen in Sanskrit
- त्रयोदश trayodaśa
- thirteen in Sinhala
- දහතුන dahatuna
- thirteen in Assamese
- তেৰ tero
- thirteen in Nepali
- तेह्र tehra
- thirteen in Pashto
- ديارلس dyârlas
- thirteen in Tagalog
- labintatlo
- thirteen in Arabic
- ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ ṯalāṯata ʕašara
- thirteen in Malay
- tiga belas, telu belas, sepuluh tiga, sepuluh telu
- thirteen in Indonesian
- tiga belas
- thirteen in Persian
- سیزده sizdah, ۱۳
- thirteen in Thai
- สิบสาม sìp-sǎam
- thirteen in Vietnamese
- mười ba
- thirteen in Myanmar
- ဆယ့်သုံး hcai.sum:
- Dhivehi
- ތޭރަ tēra
- Dzongkha
- བཅུ་གསུམ bcu gsum
Examples of thirteen in a sentence
- The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
- There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.
- Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.
Synonyms of thirteen
Forms of thirteen
| plural | thirteens |
|---|
Origin of thirteen
From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three + -teen.
Words formed from thirteen
Phrases with thirteen
Words that rhyme with thirteen
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about thirteen
- What does thirteen mean?
- Thirteen means the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
- What is thirteen in Hindi?
- Thirteen in Hindi is तेरह (terah). See Thirteen meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is thirteen?
- Thirteen can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce thirteen?
- Thirteen is pronounced /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/ (UK).
Words near thirteen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thirteen (page history and authors); तेह्र (Nepali) (page history and authors); ديارلس (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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