Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A game resembling vingt-un, but with a longer reckoning.

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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.

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  • adjective being one more than thirty

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Examples

  • “Phrase thirty-one, confirmed as rejected,” said the console.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • “Phrase thirty-one, confirmed as rejected,” said the console.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • “Phrase thirty-one, confirmed as rejected,” said the console.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • Now I am thirty-one, which is eighteen years of living beyond the doctor’s expectations.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009

  • Now I am thirty-one, which is eighteen years of living beyond the doctor’s expectations.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009

  • Between 1909 and 1917, thirty-one states passed “red-light abatement” laws allowing courts to shut down buildings for “immoral purposes.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The fact is, none of our economists think it makes any difference whether the budget deficit is thirty billion or thirty-one billion dollars on pure economics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The fact is, none of our economists think it makes any difference whether the budget deficit is thirty billion or thirty-one billion dollars on pure economics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The fact is, none of our economists think it makes any difference whether the budget deficit is thirty billion or thirty-one billion dollars on pure economics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • William Rehnquist did not leave the Court until his death in 2005, thirty-one years after Richard Nixon left the White House.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

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