Home › Words › T › thirteenerthirteener/θɜːˈtiːnə/thirteener means A child who is thirteen years old.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, thirteener ranks #16,730 of 42,747 for Qualifying.thirteener is pronounced /θɜːˈtiːnə/.EtymologyFrom thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).nounA 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.e.g.“[T]he peculiar Latin thir'''teener so popular in the Middle Ages, and best known by the lines attributed to Mapes—Meum est propositum in taberna mori [My purpose is to die in a tavern].” — 1910, George Saintsbury, “Origins of Lines and Stanzas”, in Historical Manual of English Prosody, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, book IV (Auxiliary Apparatus), page 325:A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).