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Definition: Thirties |
ThirtiesNoun1. The time of life between 30 and 40. 2. The decade from 1930 to 1939. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thirties" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
Events and Trends
World Leaders
- Worldwide Great Depression
- Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism
- Radio becomes dominant mass media in industrial nations.
- First intercontinental commercial airline flights.
- Rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany
- Millions killed in famines and purges in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
- Japan invaded China as a precursor to Japanese invasions in Southeast Asia
- The Spanish Civil War
- Start of World War II in Asia and Europe
- Height of the Art Deco movement in Europe and the US
- The Wizard of Oz
Entertainers
- President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
- President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
- President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
- Pope Pius XI
- Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- King George V (United Kingdom)
- King Edward VIII (United Kingdom)
- King George VI (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (United Kingdom)
- President Herbert Hoover (United States)
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States)
- President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
- President Eamon de Valera (Irish Free State)
- Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire)
- Louis Armstrong
- Fred Astaire
- Duke Ellington
- Judy Garland
- Katharine Hepburn
- Boris Karloff
- Bela Lugosi
- The Marx Brothers
- Edward G. Robinson
- Ginger Rogers
- Fats Waller
- Alice Brady
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "1930s."
Synonyms: ThirtiesSynonyms: mid-thirties (n), thirty-something (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affaires (public administration, economics), Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs (public administration, economics), Group of Thirty (public administration, economics), one thirty two bend (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotels), Over-Thirty-Month Scheme (medicine), Thirty Month Rule (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), thirty-channel PCM link (computing), thirty-channel PCM per-line codec multiplexer (computing), thirty-channel system (computing), thirty-six month instrument (medicine), two/thirty four Mb/s direct multiplex (computing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Your thirties, yo (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A stage in the thirties. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Domingo Ortega, first bull fighter in Spain in the thirties. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many young men with WAS are now living productive lives in their twenties and thirties. (references) | |
People from families in which relatives have developed emphysema in their thirties and forties should be tested for AAT deficiency. (references) | ||
Had they received counseling, support, and testosterone treatments beginning in childhood, these men might have avoided the difficulties of their twenties and thirties. (references) | ||
Business | Franchisers show a preference for candidates in their thirties, for they are considered to have the best work-experience/financial-capacity ratio. (references) | |
Children | Korea | The traditional preference for male children continues, although it is less evident among persons in their twenties and thirties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Thirties" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 99.49% of the time. "Thirties" is used about 790 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 99.49% | 786 | 8,804 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.38% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 790 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thirties": thirties-style. | |
Ending with "thirties": nineteen-thirties. | |
Containing "thirties": mock-thirties-liner. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thirties"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vitet tridhjetë, moshë 29-40 vjeç. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тридесетте години на човек, тридесетте години на век. (various references) | |
Chinese | 三十 (thirty). (various references) | |
Czech | třicátá léta. (various references) | |
German | dreißiger jahre. (various references) | |
Hungarian | harmincas. (various references) | |
Italian | et da 30 a 40 anni, anni trenta. (various references) | |
Korean | 30대. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irtiesthay.(various references) | |
Romanian | anii cuprinşi între 30 şi 39 inclusiv. (various references) | |
Russian | четвертый десяток, тридцатые годы. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tridesete. (various references) | |
Spanish | los trenta. (various references) | |
Turkish | otuzlu yaşlar, otuzlu yıllar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Thirties" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thirteens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thirties" (pronounced ther"tēz) |
| 3 | -t ē z | absurdities, abilities, abnormalities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, amnesties, animosities, annuities, Antes, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, beauties, booties, bounties, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, casualties, causalities, cavities, celebrities, certainties, charities, christies, cities, committees, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, counties, cruelties, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, diabetes, difficulties, disabilities, disability, disparities, ditties, divinities, duties, dynasties, eccentricities, eighties, empties, enmities, entities, entreaties, equities, extremities, facilities, faculties, fatalities, fatties, festivities, fidelities, fifties, formalities, forties, frailties, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, lefties, legalities, liabilities, liberties, liquidities, localities, loyalties, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, Montes, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, nineties, novelties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, panties, parities, parties, patties, peculiarities, penalties, personalities, pieties, possibilities, pretties, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, properties, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, royalties, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, seventies, shanties, similarities, sixties, societies, sororities, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, technicalities, tonalities, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vigilantes, vulnerabilities, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: hitters, tithers. | |
-2 letters: hitter, sitter, theirs, theist, thirst, titers, tither, tithes, titres, triste. | |
-3 letters: heirs, heist, hires, ither, rishi, rites, shier, shire, shirt, teths, their, tiers, tires, titer, tithe, titis, titre, trets, tries, trite. | |
-4 letters: erst, eths, heir, hers, hest, hets, hies, hire, hist, hits, ires, iris, reis, resh, rest, rets, rise, rite, sett. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: bitterish, shirtiest, thirstier, thistlier, trichites, tritheism, tritheist, zitherist. | |
+2 letters: shipfitter, thirstiest, thirtieths, thriftiest, tightwires, tracheitis, tritheisms, tritheists, urethritis, witherites, zitherists. | |
+3 letters: arithmetics, arthritides, authorities, erythristic, mithridates, restitching, shipfitters, stitcheries, thirstiness, thorianites, thriftiness, tritheistic. | |
+4 letters: airtightness, airworthiest, antihysteric, chitterlings, hairsplitter, sprightliest, thixotropies, tracheitises, trichotomies, urethritises. | |
+5 letters: antihysterics, etherealities, etherizations, ethnohistoric, fortnightlies, guttersnipish, hairsplitters, historicities, lithotripsies, lithotripters, rehabilitants, rehabilitates, retinopathies, rhythmicities, stoichiometry, straightening, theatricalism, theoreticians, theorizations, thirstinesses, thriftinesses, thyroiditises, trephinations, trimethoprims, tritheistical, weightlifters. | |
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