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xxxvii

xxxvii

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A Roman way of writing the number 37
  • numeral
translation icon : XXXVII
  • Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXXVII

Examples

  • Oakland has not reached the postseason since 2002, when it lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII.

    Blog text (23)

  • The openness of post-Soviet Russian education is evident from Articles XXXVII and XXXVIII, which state that, if necessary, disabled children have the right to be educated outside of Russia.

    Academic text (1997)

  • For example, the schemata for the Super Bowl XXXVII football game varied among the players on the field, the head referee dressed in regulation black and white stripes, the spectators in the stands, the viewers at home, and the game's sponsors.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The poem that we will be analyzing in detail here, for example, is surrounded by poems that provide a suggestive context for understanding the lyric persona's Neoplatonic aspirations in sonnet XXXVII.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The Roman numeral XXXVII represents the number 37.

  • In Roman numerals, XXXVII is written as 37.

  • When converting XXXVII to Arabic numerals, you get 37.

Synonyms

thirty-seven
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A number equal to thirty plus seven

is written using Roman numerals rather than common word form

Surface Forms

xxxvii roman numeral
37 cardinal digit
thirty-seven cardinal word
37th ordinal digit
thirty-seventh ordinal word

Etymology

The word xxxvii comes from the Roman numeral system used in ancient Rome. In that system X means '10', V means '5' and I means '1', so xxxvii adds those values and stands for the number '37'.