thirty-three

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The number that comes after thirty-two and before thirty-four

numeral
/ˈθɜrtiˌθri/

: treinta y tres

There were thirty-three students in the classroom today.
thirty-three percent
thirty-three years old
thirty-three years

Examples

Well she was thirty-three when she had me and when she had you...

Dad (2019)
In total, seventeen states currently require clergy to report, while the other thirty-three do not.

Academic text (1990)
Foreign cars had increased their share of the U.S. market to about thirty-three percent.

Academic text (1996)
Her husband died when she was thirty-three, and my mother four.

Fiction book (1991)
At the time of the Bobby Kennedy meeting, she was thirty-three.

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
On Easter morning, I hid thirty-three eggs in the yard.

Fiction book (2000)
At the time of the publication of the novel, Lagerlof was thirty-three years old.

Academic text (1995)
Twenty of them had helped write state constitutions, and thirty-three were lawyers.

Academic text (1993)
Not that Corinne Mulvaney was so very old when I was born; she was only thirty-three.

Fiction book (2001)
The patient was a thirty-three-year-old woman who'd fallen six stories into a rhododendron planter.

Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

vsthirty-three

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A number that is three more than thirty

is written in full words rather than numerals

Surface Forms

thirty-three cardinal word

33 cardinal digit

Morphology

thirty-three = thirty + three (transparent) = thirty + three

The numeral is a direct, standard compounding of 'thirty' + 'three' to form 33, which learners familiar with number words can easily interpret.

Etymology

The word thirty-three is just the number thirty plus three; the -ty part in thirty means 'ten times', so thirty is 'three tens'. So thirty-three is 'three tens plus three', which is why it equals 33.