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thirty-nine

[ thur-tee-nahyn ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 9.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 39 or XXXIX.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 39 in number.

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Example Sentences

Similarly, the thirty-nine framers at Philadelphia were allowed to profess their faith even in the public square.

Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.

Be on the lookout for blue Buick sedan, nineteen thirty-nine model, red wheels, being driven by Raymond Delancy.

Openings were then made from the surface at A and B, and stairways constructed reaching to a depth of thirty-nine feet.

To agree to it, they said, was to lose the bill; but it was carried by one hundred and twenty-six against thirty-nine.

On a division the second reading of the bill was negatived by a majority of thirty-nine to twenty-two.

Thirty-nine members were to be allowed to each province, and distributed without any great alteration of the existing boundaries.

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