THIRTEEN

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thirteen I. numeral

treisprezece.

thirteen II. interjecție

(amer sl.) (atenţie) şase! (exclamaţie folosită pentru a atrage atenţia cuiva asupra prezenţei nedorite a patronului, supraveghetorului, profesorului etc. - potrivit superstiţiei că nr. 13 aduce ghinion).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Thirteen ten, Sir Charles.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I was only thirteen when it happened; and though I felt my loss perhaps as strongly as one so young could feel it, I did not, I could not, then know what a loss it was.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Three months comprised thirteen weeks.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

For thirteen years had she been doing the honours, and laying down the domestic law at home, and leading the way to the chaise and four, and walking immediately after Lady Russell out of all the drawing-rooms and dining-rooms in the country.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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