thirtieths
SayTHUR-tee-uhthsUS/ˈθɝti.əθs/UK/ˈθɜːti.əθs/
- 1Plural of thirtieth.
The recipe splits the batter into thirtieths for thirty identical muffins.
Two thirtieths of the budget were set aside for emergencies.
Note
A plural that belongs only to the noun. The adjective thirtieth, the plain ordinal, never takes an -s. Its natural home is the fraction, where a number in front counts the shares: two thirtieths, seven thirtieths, built the same way as fifths or tenths. The positional noun, the one in thirtieth place, can be pluralized too, but only when several rankings are being compared.
thirtieths is a form of thirtieth
thirtieth, noun: The person or thing occupying position number thirty in an ordered set or ranking. Full entry
- Forms
- thirtieththirtieths plural
- Spelling
- thirtieth → thirtieths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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