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📻 1930s decade 🧑 Ages 30-39
thirties

thirties

1 2.1
The years 1930 to 1939
  • noun
  • /ˈθɜrtiˌiz/
translation icon : los años treinta
  • The fashion trends of the Thirties featured bold patterns and elegant silhouettes.

Examples

  • Cave and Ellis sought a sound that evoked the Thirties era of the movie while also transcending it.

    Blog text (13)

  • It's like the Thirties.

    Blog text (20)

  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

    Academic text (1999)

  • "I am delighted, however, with having completely missed Streisand's work in the Thirties."

    Blog text (18)

  • The Thirties and Forties; they painted landscapes.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • To which would you rather return: the Roaring Twenties or the Dirty Thirties?

    Blog text (18)

  • Keith Botsford would add that Bellow's books are probably the best paradigm of America from the Thirties to the present.

    Academic text (1997)

  • It is no accident that this trend developed in the Thirties and was always correlated to a fevered anti-Communism.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The unregulated greed and excess of the Roaring Twenties gave us the crash and the worldwide depression of the Thirties.

    Blog text (27)

  • Many families struggled to make ends meet during the Thirties due to the Great Depression.

Synonyms

1930s
vsthirties
114 1.0

The decade from 1930 to 1939

is the same meaning but written as a word instead of numerals

Compounds

mid-thirties
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A time in life when someone is about 34 to 36 years old

Surface Forms

thirties plural

Morphology

thirties = thirty (transparent) = thirty + ies

The word 'thirties' is transparently derived from 'thirty' with the plural suffix '-ies', indicating a decade.

Etymology

The word thirties comes from thirty, which originally meant 'three tens', a number made of three and ten. So the decade called the thirties means the years 1930 to 1939, the group of years that belong to the 'thirty' numbers.