THIRTY-SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-six mean? 

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

1. being six more than thirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-SIX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being six more than thirty

Synonyms:

36; thirty-six; xxxvi

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Food had not passed his lips in thirty-six hours, but he did not think about it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were reported there during those months.

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

In South America there are, if my memory serves me—you will check the observation, Professor Summerlee—some thirty-six species of monkeys, but the anthropoid ape is unknown.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six,” said Holmes, reading it over and over.

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

Likewise a small house, with stalls for the cows, and thirty-six gallons of beer for the thirsty weather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A three weeks' residence at Delaford, where, in his evening hours at least, he had little to do but to calculate the disproportion between thirty-six and seventeen, brought him to Barton in a temper of mind which needed all the improvement in Marianne's looks, all the kindness of her welcome, and all the encouragement of her mother's language, to make it cheerful.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweller’s art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I have ever seen.

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

You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of being discovered.

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