36th
- adjective
- /ˈθɜrtiˈsɪksθ/
- The honor for A Royal Pain is the 36th award for a Calvin student film in the last four years.
Examples
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You can see them on their 36th anniversary.
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Rose continued to run her coat-lining business in a dingy factory on 36th Street.
Fiction book (1998) -
For our money, we get the 36th best care in the developed world.
Blog text (28) -
As some insiders know, Carol and I just spent a week in Hawaii celebrating our 36th wedding anniversary.
Blog text (33) -
Daley also announced the appointment of John Rice, 41, as the new 36th Ward alderman.
Blog text (6) -
They're considering shutting down electrical service south of 36th Street if underground equipment becomes inundated with water.
Blog text (13) -
This year, she celebrated her 36th birthday with a big party.
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He ranked 36th in the competition, just missing the top thirty-five.
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The book is the 36th in a series of thrilling mysteries.
Synonyms
Coming after the thirty-fifth in a sequence
Surface Forms
Morphology
36th = 36 (transparent) = 36 + th
Formed by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to the numeral 36 to indicate its position in a sequence; the relation is regular and predictable.
Etymology
36Th is simply the number thirty-six with the small ending -th, which shows 'order' or 'position'. So 36th means the thing that is 'number thirty-six in a list', the one after the thirty-fifth.