thirty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 31 or XXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Success four flights thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone average speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 seconds inform Press home Christmas.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2021
And they did it thirty one times, using the most powerful weapon of all, the one simple word: Guilty.
From Time • Aug. 13, 2013
She and my dad, after thirty one years of marriage, are not emotionally close anymore, and she had no comforting words for me.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2011
Withered, though only thirty, one thing alone remained to be lost, what he called his honour, which was already on the scent to play booty.
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The thirty one, we had a great storme, so that we lost sight one of another: but by night we came together againe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
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