THIRTY-FIRST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-first mean? 

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

1. coming next after the thirtieth in position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-FIRST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the thirtieth in position

Synonyms:

31st; thirty-first

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

The thirty-first and final spinal nerve arising from the sacral plexus.

(Coccygeal Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

A heavy cross-buttock at the end of the thirty-first round shook the breath from his body, and he came up for the thirty-second with the same jaunty gallantry as ever, but with the dazed expression of a man whose wind has been utterly smashed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)