thirty-eighth

[ thur-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

1. next after the thirty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 38.
2. being one of 38 equal parts.

noun

1. a thirty-eighth part, especially of one (1/38).
2. the thirty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

In the neighbourhood of the British Isles the salt has been stated at one thirty-eighth of the weight of the water.

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There are entire chapters, such as the thirty-eighth chapter of Genesis, that reek with obscenity from beginning to end.

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But he did see a period of great success for him between his thirty-second and his thirty-eighth years.

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It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.

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With solemn brevity does the prophet Jeremiah refer to this custom in the forty-eighth chapter, and the thirty-eighth verse.

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