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thirty-first

[ thur-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the thirtieth; being the ordinal number for 31.
  2. being one of 31 equal parts.


noun

  1. a thirty-first part, especially of one (1/31).
  2. the thirty-first member of a series.

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Example Sentences

I did not realize it so keenly until I saw an old man trudging along Thirty-first Street with a large pack upon his back.

On January thirty-first the final orders were issued for the advance, and the march began.

On the thirty-first of January, 1850, the balance of debt against the colony was twenty-eight thousand pounds.

The triumphal entry of the allies into Paris began next morning, March thirty-first, 1814, at seven o'clock.

On the thirtieth they came down with this reply; and on the thirty-first the father went back with it to confer with his Lordship.

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