Meaning & use

thirteenth

number·Everyday

The ordinal number matching thirteen in a sequence, coming immediately after twelfth.

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The office is located on the thirteenth floor of the building.

Today marks the thirteenth day since the project began, and morale is finally improving.

A note on using this word

Written as a numeral, thirteenth is abbreviated '13th'; some buildings skip the number due to superstition around the figure.

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