thirteener
Meanings
noun
- A child who is thirteen years old.
- A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.
- The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.
- A hit for thirteen runs.
- A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence).
- A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
- A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
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Etymology
From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).
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