Meaning

7 senses
  1. A child who is thirteen years old.

  2. (dated)A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.

  3. (especially)The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.

  4. A hit for thirteen runs.

  5. (dated)A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence).

  6. A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.

  7. (US)A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.

Origin

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or thing

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).

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Forms

plural: thirteeners

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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