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THIRTY-NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-nine mean? 

THIRTY-NINE (adjective)
  The adjective THIRTY-NINE has 1 sense:

1. being nine more than thirtyplay

  Familiarity information: THIRTY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THIRTY-NINE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being nine more than thirty

Synonyms:

39; ixl; thirty-nine

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)


 Context examples 


A natural number greater than thirty-nine and less than forty-one and the quantity that it denotes.

(Forty, NCI Thesaurus)

‘There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,’ said he, ‘and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of being discovered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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