thirty-ninth

American  

[thur-tee-nahynth] / ˈθɜr tiˈnaɪnθ /

adjective

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

2. being one of 39 equal parts.

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noun

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

2. the thirty-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

The two dueled for the first half of the game, but Bobby clearly had the advantage after that and he won on the thirty-ninth move.

From Literature

On April 7, Ellsberg’s thirty-ninth birthday, Carol Cummings called to tell him FBI agents had just come to her door.

From Literature

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

From Scientific American

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

From The New Yorker

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

From Time