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THIRTY-FOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-four mean?
• THIRTY-FOUR (adjective)
The adjective THIRTY-FOUR has 1 sense:
1. being four more than thirty
Familiarity information: THIRTY-FOUR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being four more than thirty
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
Mr. Lucas is an unmarried man, thirty-four years of age, and his establishment consists of Mrs. Pringle, an elderly housekeeper, and of Mitton, his valet.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You will eventually manage the great depĂ´t in Paris, which will pour a flood of English crockery into the shops of a hundred and thirty-four agents in France.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By that day you will be the business manager of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, with a hundred and thirty-four branches in the towns and villages of France, not counting one in Brussels and one in San Remo.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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