THIRTY-EIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-eight mean? 

• THIRTY-EIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective THIRTY-EIGHT has 1 sense:

1. being eight more than thirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-EIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being eight more than thirty

Synonyms:

38; thirty-eight; xxxviii

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.

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

Thirty-eight of the sites showed active gully formation, such as new channel segments and increased deposits at the downhill end of some gullies.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)