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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A phonograph record designed to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.

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  • noun The cardinal number after thirty-two and before thirty-four.
  • noun A phonograph record that rotates at 33⅓ revolutions per minute; especially an LP

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  • adjective being three more than thirty

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Examples

  • Perhaps the single largest indicator that American culture is on the wrong track, explains Pastor White, is the national abortion rate—“Fifty million dead in the last thirty-three years,” as he describes it—and it is this disturbing trend that he and his congregants feel most passionate about curbing.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Keeping up with both worship and parish life requires the full-time attention of a rector, a vicar, three associate rectors, one assistant rector, and three lay associates, as well as an additional thirty-three full-time and eleven part-time staff members.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • It may have seemed like an impossible challenge, but I did the math: thirty-three guards, each with the capacity to carry a two-hundred-pound adult out of the slick grip of the sea, amounted to over six thousand pounds of lifting power, enough for the job.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • As that old couple traveled to various national parks, they must have had a great time telling the bizarre story of thirty-three men who appeared out of the mist one morning to lift their truck from the clutches of the sea, only to disappear moments later back into the mist.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • As that old couple traveled to various national parks, they must have had a great time telling the bizarre story of thirty-three men who appeared out of the mist one morning to lift their truck from the clutches of the sea, only to disappear moments later back into the mist.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • From Shawbury, Flying Officer Wales continued his helicopter flight training at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, a more comfortable thirty-three miles outside London.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • It may have seemed like an impossible challenge, but I did the math: thirty-three guards, each with the capacity to carry a two-hundred-pound adult out of the slick grip of the sea, amounted to over six thousand pounds of lifting power, enough for the job.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Then the captain cut out two guards to remain with the lifesaving gear at the main tower until the other thirty-three returned to erect the remaining six or seven towers.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • From Shawbury, Flying Officer Wales continued his helicopter flight training at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, a more comfortable thirty-three miles outside London.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • We buried her beside my father, who had been in the grave waiting for her for thirty-three years.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

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