THIRTY-SEVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-seven mean? 

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

1. being seven more than thirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-SEVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being seven more than thirty

Synonyms:

37; thirty-seven; xxxvii

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him.

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

This other is a milliner’s account for thirty-seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, to William Derbyshire.

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

Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.

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

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

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