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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number thirty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 36 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of thirty-six equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of thirty-six in counting order

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Examples

  • “I have a present for you—something special for your thirty-sixth birthday.”

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • President Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth president of the U.

    Unleashed John F. Kennedy 2011

  • President Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth president of the U.

    Unleashed John F. Kennedy 2011

  • The dinner was acelebration of the thirty-sixth anniversary of the day the white supremacist government of Rhodesia announced a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, which was pressingit to enfranchise black people.

    Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts 2010

  • I could think of no better way to start my thirty-sixth year.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • President Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth president of the U.

    Unleashed John F. Kennedy 2011

  • I could think of no better way to start my thirty-sixth year.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • “I have a present for you—something special for your thirty-sixth birthday.”

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Tennessee was the thirty-sixth state to ratify, giving the amendment the requisite approval of three-fourths of the states; the amendment passed because 24 year-old legislator Harry Burn changed his vote, at the insistence of his elderly mother.

    19th amendment anniversary: Politicians celebrate 2010

  • Tennessee was the thirty-sixth state to ratify, giving the amendment the requisite approval of three-fourths of the states; the amendment passed because 24 year-old legislator Harry Burn changed his vote, at the insistence of his elderly mother.

    19th amendment anniversary: Politicians celebrate 2010

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