Definition of thirteenth in English:
thirteenth
ordinal number ˌθəːˈtiːnθ
1Constituting number thirteen in a sequence; 13th.
Example sentencesExamples
- The modes of dress during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were various and ridiculous.
- The association is celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of its formation this year.
- The band set off to record their thirteenth album.
- Both Wales and Scotland would gradually come to adopt these values during the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- The thirteenth annual trade show attracted 97 exhibitors this year.
- It was the night of my thirteenth birthday party, and I was blowing out the candles on my cake.
- The thirteenth amendment was necessary to make its provisions stick once the crisis had passed.
- In England, land was treated as a commodity in the thirteenth century.
- The thirteenth chapter of Matthew has a collection of parables in it.
- When we unroll the sixth and the thirteenth centuries, and hang up the two side by side, we find that it is a contrasted picture that they exhibit.
2Each of thirteen equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
Example sentencesExamples
- The proportion of the arable lands is about a thirteenth of the whole.
- There are under a hundred million Brits living in a country less than one thirteenth the size of Texas.
- Unemployment benefits make up a mere one thirteenth of the cost of welfare overall.
- The townspeople built their own network, and now their bills are about $1.20 a month, a thirteenth the size of average monthly bills in places where the big players offer service.
- I have heard that the king will demand a thirteenth of our goods when he comes again to England.
Rhymes
eighteenth, fifteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth, umpteenth