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🔢 Next after twelfth 🔢 Person number thirteen 🧩 One of thirteen parts
thirteenth

thirteenth

16 1.0
After the twelfth in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɜrˌtiːnθ/
translation icon : decimotercero
  • What about your thirteenth candle?
  • thirteenth century
  • thirteenth anniversary
  • thirteenth session

Examples

  • For her thirteenth birthday, she received a beautiful necklace from her parents.

  • - This is my thirteenth pair.

    Ed Wood (1994)

  • The next summer, for my thirteenth birthday, my father mailed me a guitar.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Mr. Helpmann, the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.

    Brazil (1985)

  • Slavery was abolished following our bloody Civil War with the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Leslie was wearing her new leather-fringed buckskin boots I'd bought her for her thirteenth birthday.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The thirteenth chapter of the book contains important clues about the plot.

  • He was the thirteenth contestant to enter the competition.

Compounds

thirteenth grade
  • Informal
6.8

An extra year at high school when a student does not move on

Surface Forms

thirteenth positive
thirteenth comparative
thirteenth superlative

Morphology

thirteenth = thirteen (transparent) = thirteen + th

Standard ordinal formation from the cardinal 'thirteen' with the ordinal suffix '-th', making the positional meaning clear to learners.

Etymology

Thirteenth comes from thirteen, which is three + teen and comes from ten, so it originally meant 'three and ten'. Adding -th makes it the 'order' form, so thirteenth means 'coming after the twelfth'.