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🧑 Person aged 30-39 🧑 Aged 30-39
thirtysomething

thirtysomething

1 4.2
Between thirty and thirty-nine years old
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɜrtiˌsʌmθɪŋ/
translation icon : treintañero
  • The thirtysomething "Fourth Generation" producers of popular Chinese nationalist discourse may support or challenge the state's foreign policies.
  • a thirtysomething woman
  • a thirtysomething man
  • a thirtysomething couple

Examples

  • Many thirtysomething professionals are juggling work demands with family responsibilities.

  • I wasn't very pissed off because she had misled me, a thirtysomething, educated, experienced woman, who had actually been surprised when she had assured me in the first place that it didn't really hurt.

    Blog text (29)

  • A hazy, black-and-white image (very grainy, like early experimental TV images) of a thirtysomething man in early twentieth-century military uniform.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • But July's story about a pair of thirtysomething slackers struggling with the most meager forms of adult responsibility is grounded in painful truth and a firm grasp of consequence.

    Blog text (2)

  • In her thirties, she often reflects on her life as a thirtysomething and the choices she has made.

  • He enjoys spending time with his thirtysomething friends as they navigate their careers and relationships.

How Old

thirtysomething
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Surface Forms

thirtysomething positive

Morphology

thirtysomething = thirty + something (transparent) = thirty + something

A clear compound of 'thirty' + 'something' meaning an unspecified age in the thirties; the meaning is directly inferable from the components.

Etymology

Thirtysomething comes from the simple words thirty and something, which together mean 'thirty and some more years'. It follows the same idea as 'twenty-something' and is used as an adjective to say someone is in their 30s, between 30 and 39.