thirty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 31 or XXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
Miss Harrop was a good, warm-hearted woman of about thirty, one of those unhappy persons who are made for domestic life, but condemned by fate to school-celibacy.
From The Nether World by Gissing, George
Moreover, at thirty, one leaves the first romance of youth behind.
From With Edged Tools by Merriman, Henry Seton
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