thirty-one

American  

[thur-tee-wuhn] / ˈθɜr tiˈwʌn /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.

2. a symbol for this number, as 31 or XXXI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 31 in number.

Example Sentences

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

When one is twenty and romantic one would scorn a woman who would jilt us for wealth and position; at thirty, one would scorn any woman who didn't.

From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Le Gallienne, Richard

In order that such may be obvious, we signed this in Manila, April thirty, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen