Thirteener

Quick meaning: Thirteener is a noun meaning A child who is thirteen years old.

Meaning

A child who is thirteen years old.

More Meanings

1. (card games, especially bridge) The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.
2. (cricket) A hit for thirteen runs.
3. (poetry) A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
4. (US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
5. (numismatics, dated) A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence).
6. (dated) A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.

Example Sentences

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure.

Raise the tough issues and questions that Thirteeners struggle with in the real world. […] The speaker should be transparent about his or her own life struggles and problems. This creates credibility and helps Thirteeners identify their own problems.

[T]he following description of a thorough-going College Whist-player is too good to lose. […] How he used to bring out forgotten thirteeners at the end of the hand! And how the majesty of your kings and queens was forced to bow down before his dirty little sixes and sevens!

Word Forms

• thirteeners

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thirteenpence, threepence, threepennyworth, threepenny, thruppence, thruppenny.

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