Definitions
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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber thirty-three , describing a person or thing in position number33 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
thirty-three equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of thirty-three in counting order
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Examples
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River Bend 1, in St. Francisville, La. north of Baton Rouge, ranked thirty-third on the list, with a 1 in 40,000 chance of quake damage yearly.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Power Plants Say They're Prepared For Quakes Susan Buchanan 2011
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His fever raged on, the pain increased, and soon even Alexander—just short of his thirty-third birthday—knew that the end was near.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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His fever raged on, the pain increased, and soon even Alexander—just short of his thirty-third birthday—knew that the end was near.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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River Bend 1, in St. Francisville, La. north of Baton Rouge, ranked thirty-third on the list, with a 1 in 40,000 chance of quake damage yearly.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Power Plants Say They're Prepared For Quakes Susan Buchanan 2011
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Among thirty-four Western countries surveyed for the acceptance of evolution, the United States ranked a dismal thirty-third, just above Turkey.
RNB Roundup: religious political correctness in England; more religion news 2009
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His fever raged on, the pain increased, and soon even Alexander—just short of his thirty-third birthday—knew that the end was near.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The site serves over twenty billion page views per month, ranking thirty-third overall among web sites worldwide and seventh overall among web sites in the United States.
Conchita Sarnoff: Protest on Craiglist Doorsteps in San Francisco to End "Adult Services" Section 2010
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[The Onion] • For my part, I'm just glad that I haven't had to write a thirty-third post on how stupid the 'gas-tax holiday' was.
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A Dark Matter is also about the power and limitations of storytelling—indeed, a magical demon with the silly name Doity Toid for dirty turd, not thirty-third even explains this by writing on a chalkboard within the mind of a young killer.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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The site serves over twenty billion page views per month, ranking thirty-third overall among web sites worldwide and seventh overall among web sites in the United States.
Conchita Sarnoff: Protest on Craiglist Doorsteps in San Francisco to End "Adult Services" Section 2010
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