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# thirteenth

«thirteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 13 in order, after the twelfth and before the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

ordinal number; adjective (thirteenth); noun (a thirteenth, thirteenths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thirteenth means number 13 in order, after the twelfth and before the fourteenth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#m1)

2) A thirteenth is one of thirteen equal parts of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths it is used for order (ordinal numbers) and for fractions: one thirteenth = 1/13. In everyday life: the thirteenth floor, a thirteenth birthday (becoming a teenager). Some people believe the number thirteen is unlucky; that is a superstition, not a fact. Written short as 13th.

### examples

- She came thirteenth in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x1)
- My thirteenth birthday makes me a teenager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x2)
- Some buildings skip the thirteenth floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x3)
- One thirteenth of 26 is 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x4)
- He was the thirteenth person in the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x5)
- The thirteenth chapter is the scariest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x6)
- If a cake is cut into thirteen equal pieces, each is a thirteenth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x7)
- You wish to know why we never eat of the thirteenth dish? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/#x8)

### note

Spelling: thir-teen-th (no «e» dropped). Short form: 13th. Fraction: 1/13; two thirteenths = 2/13. Do not confuse with «thirtieth» (30th). The idea that thirteen is unlucky is a myth.

### In the corpora

- [Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.356/)
- [For the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.894/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thirteenth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thirteenth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.