thirteen
The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
Example
“There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.”
Related words
- thirteenfold
- thirteenish
- thirteenness
- thirteenpence
- thirteenpenny
- thirteensome
- grade thirteen
- sweet thirteen
- thirteen hundred
- thirteen to the dozen
- thirteener
- thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "þrēotīene".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “thirteen” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.