thirty-ninth

[thur-tee-nahynth]

adjective

1. next after the thirty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 39.

2. being one of 39 equal parts.

noun

1. a thirty-ninth part, especially of one (1/39).

2. the thirty-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

It's the thirty-ninth anniversary of the May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

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July 19th was a national holiday, the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, and Ortega wanted the barricades cleared.

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For an extended moment in the thirty-ninth minute, both Englands struggled to take control.

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Jugelé was the two hundred and thirty-ninth person since the beginning of 2015 to lose his life in a terrorist attack on French soil.

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I couldn’t be assured that I would make it to my eighteenth, twenty-first, thirty-ninth or fiftieth birthdays.

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