THIRTY-ONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-one mean? 

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

1. being one more than thirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-ONE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than thirty

Synonyms:

31; thirty-one; xxxi

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

I have held two and twenty towns, and I have been at the intaking of thirty-one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—“And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)