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thirty-eighth

thirty-eighth

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The position that comes after thirty-seven in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˌθɜrtiˈeɪθ/
: trigésimo octavo
  • Thirty-eighth word ... thirty-seventh word.
  • thirty-eighth birthday

Examples

  • MENC President-Elect Carolynn Lindeman and Executive Director John J. Mahlmann were in attendance as Dreyfuss spoke at the thirty-eighth annual awards presentation of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Sixty-five-year-old dentist Richard Gottfried had just celebrated his thirty-eighth wedding anniversary.

  • For example, the article below, indexed as 1850.38, reflects that it is the thirty-eighth entry for the year 1850.

    Blog text (17)

  • After the end of World War II, the partition of Korea between the United States and the Soviet Union at the thirty-eighth parallel was a replay of geopolitical and balance-of-power politics, with the United States taking the place of defeated Japan.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Today was her thirty-eighth birthday.

  • For his thirty-eighth birthday, Ian's wife had given him a sky-diving lesson.

Synonyms

38th
vsthirty-eighth
17 1.0

The thirty-eighth position in a list

is written in full words rather than as digits with a suffix

Surface Forms

thirty-eighth positive

Morphology

thirty-eighth = thirty-eight (transparent) = thirty + eight + th

Formed by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'thirty-eight', a straightforward ordinal formation.

Etymology

Thirty-eighth is a simple combination of thirty ('30') and eighth ('8th'), so it literally means 'the eighth after thirty'. So, thirty-eighth is the word used for the 38th position in a list or order.