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3️⃣ The number 31 3️⃣ Amount: 31
thirty-one

thirty-one

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Having the number that comes after thirty
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɜrtiˌwʌn/
translation icon : treinta y uno
  • There are thirty-one days in January.
  • thirty-one-year-old
  • thirty-one years
  • thirty-one weeks

Examples

  • You're thirty-one years old."

    When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

  • Thirty-one minutes have passed.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Take a look at thirty-one across.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • When I was her age, I was thirty-one.

    Tender Is the Night (1962)

  • Thirty-one is young, dude.

    Gregoire (2017)

  • Thirty-one is not old.

    Wimbledon (2004)

  • " I'm thirty-one."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Mitch Rapp, a thirty-one-year-old American, hadn't showered in a week.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The stately three-story structure built on the banks of the Grand River in Salina had housed Cherokee orphans for thirty-one years.

    Academic text (2010)

  • THIRTY-ONE MINUTES TO GO.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

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vsthirty-one
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A Roman numeral for thirty-one

is written in digits using the common numeral system rather than Roman

Surface Forms

thirty-one positive

Morphology

thirty-one = thirty + one (transparent) = thirty + one

Adjectival use retains the clear compound numerical meaning (30 + 1 = 31), so the composition is transparent.

Etymology

Thirty-one is formed from thirty ('three tens') and one, so it means 'one more than thirty'. That's why when we describe something as thirty-one we mean it is the number 31.