thirty-six

American  

[thur-tee-siks] / ˈθɜr tiˈsɪks /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 36 or XXXVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 36 in number.

Example Sentences

By suppertime I had my list, Pa’s books were balanced, and we had thirty-six jars of catsup lined up on the windowsills.

From Literature

Muriel Spark’s protagonist—“she might be as young as twenty-nine or as old as thirty-six”—comes to us, at first, as a burlesque.

From The Wall Street Journal

And pretty soon everybody was chanting, “...thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight...”

From Literature

“Which one of the thirty-six expressions is that?”

From Literature

And within that time frame, there are just twenty-four to thirty-six hours in which she’s able to conceive.

From Literature