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Definition of "thirty-three" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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