thirty-first

[ thur-tee-furst ]

/ ˈθɜr tiˈfɜrst /

next after the thirtieth; being the ordinal number for 31.

being one of 31 equal parts.

a thirty-first part, especially of one (1/31).

the thirty-first member of a series.

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

Mrs Hopgood had a fire, although it was not yet the thirty-first of October, for it was very damp and raw.
Clara Hopgood|Mark Rutherford
Lastly, Mr. Onions Winter was advertising the thirty-first thousand of that work.
A Great Man|Arnold Bennett
Com'modus died in the thirty-first year of his age, after an impious reign of twelve years and nine months.
Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome|Oliver Goldsmith
In 1783 the country north of the thirty-first parallel was included within the limits of the United States.
Elsie and Her Namesakes|Martha Finley

The queen died on the twenty-sixth of October, 1580, in the thirty-first year of her age, and the eleventh of her reign.
History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain|William H. Prescott