1️⃣ The number 13 1️⃣ Number 13

thirteen

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One more than twelve

adjective
/θɜrˈtin/

: trece

The room number was thirteen, which always made the guests a little superstitious.

Examples

Her brother Kalakawa ascended the throne, but thirteen years into his reign, the emerging threat crystallized.
I say, look, every thirteen years is another billion people.
It's, it's an interesting again, you know, this, this, even though it's thirteen years old, it's still so new.
And you know, yes, he spent thirteen years on this very, very careful work, but at the end he came back to his original model.
And so when you understand that like, bro, being an entrepreneur at thirteen years old, that makes perfect sense.
And when I got to my room and I'm thirteen years old, when I got to my room, the phone rang.
From the time she first read Carlo Bocca's History of the Thirteen Colonies in her family library in England, Fanny was fascinated by America.

Fiction book (1993)
Like many of the people in the Thirteen Colonies (and in Great Britain), they were fans of the Enlightenment, and religion wasn't that important to them.

Blog text (32)
He turned thirteen last week and is excited to start high school next year.
In a game of cards, a player who holds a thirteen has a strong chance of winning.

Synonyms

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vsthirteen

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The number thirteen written in Roman numerals

is the number expressed in ordinary numeric form rather than a Roman symbol

Surface Forms

thirteen positive

Morphology

thirteen = three (transparent) = three + teen

A standard and productive numeral formation: the meaning is directly derived from 'three' + the numeral suffix '-teen' despite minor phonological/spelling differences.

Etymology

Thirteen is simply three + teen, where teen comes from ten, so it originally meant 'three plus ten'. That's why thirteen means 'one more than twelve' or the number 13.