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Definitions for thirteen
ˈθɜrˈtinthir·teen
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Princeton's WordNet
thirteen, 13, XIII, baker's dozen, long dozenadjective
the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one
thirteen, 13, xiiiadjective
being one more than twelve
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Thirteenadjective
Ten and three.
Etymology: ðreotine , Saxon.
Speaking at the one end, I heard it return the voice thirteen times. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 249.
Wikipedia
Thirteen
Thirteen is a song by the American rock band Big Star. Rolling Stone describes it "one of rock's most beautiful celebrations of adolescence", and rated it #406 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It was written by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell. Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom writes in his Allmusic review of the song, "There are few songs that capture the aching innocence of adolescence as well" and calls it a "perfect melancholy ballad". The song encompasses folk and pop characteristics with its use of simple lyrics and the acoustic guitar. The song was originally featured on the 1972 album #1 Record. It was released as a single by Big Star with “Watch the Sunrise” as the B-Side, on Ardent Records, but was mislabeled as “Don’t Lie to Me”.
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thirteen
Thirteen is a number represented by the numeral 13, falling between twelve and fourteen. It is considered a prime number, meaning it has only two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. It also holds cultural significance in various societies, occasionally symbolizing superstition, luck, or religious phenomena.
Webster Dictionary
Thirteenadjective
one more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds
Thirteennoun
the number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects
Thirteennoun
a symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii
Wikidata
Thirteen
Thirteen is a 2003 American drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, the film's co-star. The film also stars Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood. It is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by Reed's life at age 12 and 13 with Wood's character "Tracy" being loosely based upon Reed. The script was written in six days and was originally meant to be a comedy. The film caused controversy upon its release, because it dealt with topics such as drug and alcohol abuse, underage sexual behavior and self-harm.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Thirteen
thėr′tēn, adj. and n. three and ten.—adj. and n. Thir′teenth, the last of thirteen: a thirteenth part. [A.S. threótýne—threó, three, týn, ten.]
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'thirteen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #827
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Anagrams for thirteen »
tetherin
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thirteen in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thirteen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of thirteen in a Sentence
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
Girls as young as twelve and thirteen, some just finishing primary school, are being taken by police to a strange place and ordered by someone with a huge amount of power to take off their clothes.
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
Jamie Spears ' former attorney:
Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or her father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney.
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- dertienAfrikaans
- አስራሶስትAmharic
- ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَArabic
- tunka kimsaniAymara
- on üçAzerbaijani
- ун өсBashkir
- трына́ццацьBelarusian
- трина́десетBulgarian
- ১৩, তেরোBengali
- བཅུ་གསུམTibetan Standard
- trizekBreton
- tretzeCatalan, Valencian
- кхойттаChechen
- trèdeciCorsican
- třináctCzech
- трьѥ на дєсѧтєOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- undeg tair, un deg tri, tair ar ddeg, tri ar ddegWelsh
- trettenDanish
- dreizehnGerman
- δεκατρείς, δεκατρίαGreek
- dek triEsperanto
- treceSpanish
- kolmteistEstonian
- hamahiruBasque
- ۱۳, سیزدهPersian
- kolmetoistaFinnish
- trettanFaroese
- treizeFrench
- trettjinWestern Frisian
- trí déagIrish
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- તેરGujarati
- tree jeigManx
- שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה, שְׁלוֹשָה־עָשָׂרHebrew
- तेरह्, १३Hindi
- trèzHaitian Creole
- tizenháromHungarian
- տասներեքArmenian
- dece-tresInterlingua
- tiga belasIndonesian
- þrettánIcelandic
- trediciItalian
- 十三Japanese
- ცამეტიGeorgian
- он үшKazakh
- aqqaniq-pingasutKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ដប់បីKhmer
- ೧೩, ಹದಿಮೂರುKannada
- 열셋, 十三, 십삼Korean
- sêzdeKurdish
- он үчKyrgyz
- tredecimLatin
- ສິບສາມLao
- trylikaLithuanian
- trīspadsmitLatvian
- трина́есетMacedonian
- പതിമൂന്ന്Malayalam
- арван гурав, ᠑᠓Mongolian
- telu belas, satu puluh telu, sepuluh tiga, tiga belas, satu puluh tiga, sepuluh teluMalay
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- ဆယ့်သုံးBurmese
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- trettenNorwegian
- tááʼtsʼáadahNavajo, Navaho
- khumi n'zitatuChichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
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- ତେର, ୧୩Oriya
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- trzynaście, trzynaścioroPolish
- trezePortuguese
- chunka kimsayuqQuechua
- traidesch, tredisch, tredeschRomansh
- treisprezeceRomanian
- трина́дцатьRussian
- त्रयोदशSanskrit
- trechi, trexi, treghi, tréichi, treciSardinian
- тринаест, trinaestSerbo-Croatian
- දහතුනSinhala, Sinhalese
- trinásťSlovak
- trinajstSlovene
- trembëdhjetëAlbanian
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- பதின்மூன்றுTamil
- పదమూడుTelugu
- сездаҳTajik
- สิบสามThai
- on üçTurkmen
- labintatloTagalog
- on üçTurkish
- унөчTatar
- ئون ئۈچUyghur, Uighur
- трина́дцятьUkrainian
- تیرہUrdu
- o‘n uchUzbek
- degkilVolapük
- דרײַצןYiddish
- 十三Chinese
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