THIRTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-five mean? 

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

1. being five more than thirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than thirty

Synonyms:

35; thirty-five; xxxv

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

‘Young or old, under twenty or over thirty-five, you may bring whom you will at the weight, and I shall lay two to one on Wilson,’ said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But thirty-five has nothing to do with matrimony.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That would be thirty-five dollars a month, wouldn't it?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I would work my will through it all, in spite of Wolf Larsen and of my own thirty-five bookish years.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Thirty-five researchers from institutions around the world worked for 10 years to compile 20 million observational records of the world's land plants.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)

She laugh. She says, 'I am great traveller. This is my outfit.' She kick one small pack in the snow. It is two fur robes, canvas outside, some woman's clothes inside. I pick it up. Maybe thirty-five pounds. I am surprised.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The first day they covered thirty-five miles to the Big Salmon; the next day thirty-five more to the Little Salmon; the third day forty miles, which brought them well up toward the Five Fingers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But since this study looks at the past thirty-five years, it's not guaranteed that as the atmosphere continues to evolve with global climate change that OH levels will continue to recycle in the same way into the future.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

But if there should by any chance happen to be a woman who is single at seven and twenty, I should not think Colonel Brandon's being thirty-five any objection to his marrying HER.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)