thirty-one

American  

[thur-tee-wuhn] / ˈθɜr tiˈwʌn /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.

2. a symbol for this number, as 31 or XXXI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 31 in number.

Example Sentences

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

Tuesday, April thirty, one libra of quicksilver was incorporated with another quintal of ore obtained from the said old mines called Arisey and Bugayona.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

I was in two before I was thirty, one off Hayti and one off Java, and I enjoyed them both thoroughly.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe