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US
/ˈθɝˈtinθ/
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[ UK /θˈɜːtiːnθ/ ]
[ UK /θˈɜːtiːnθ/ ]
NOUN
- position 13 in a countable series of things
ADJECTIVE
- coming next after the twelfth in position
How To Use thirteenth In A Sentence
- During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
- The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory's chapter room.
- Again Arabs such as Avicenna and Abū'l-Barakāt had used equivalent Arabic termi - nology to express the same idea, and thirteenth-century Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- The original interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment was to prevent the state from enforcing labor contracts with penal sanctions.
- When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
- This was my thirteenth consecutive Varsity match. Times, Sunday Times
- Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious and political struggle of Southern Gaul in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries than were Castres and other neighbouring towns. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
- Beaumanoir in the thirteenth century laments the fact that every castellany in France had a differing law of its own, and Glanville still earlier makes a similar complaint of England. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
- Towards the end of the twelfth century, stone from Caen was used for the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the mid-thirteenth century freestone from Caen was used for mouldings and carvings in Westminster Abbey.
- It was the night of my thirteenth birthday party, and I was blowing out the candles on my cake.