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Definition of Thirty-eight
1. Adjective. Being eight more than thirty.
Definition of Thirty-eight
1. Number. The cardinal number immediately following thirty-seven and preceding thirty-nine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirty-eight
Literary usage of Thirty-eight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1901)
"637 'Edward M. Thompson had six hundred and thirty nine votes, 639 Justus Watkins
had six hundred and thirty-eight votes, .. 638 JA Welsch had six hundred ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"... For eleven additional clerks in said office, per act of July seven, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; ..."
3. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"CHAPTER thirty-eight "!T ALL begins, as I've told you, with the man called Brown,"
ran the opening sentence of Marlow's narrative. ..."
4. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1868)
"... eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall not he withheld from any widow whose
hushand died after the passage of the aet of the seventh of June, ..."
5. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... the sum of four hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-eight
dollars and sixty-eight cents, in manner as follows, viz: one hundred and ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and imperfect origin of the western churches oí of religion in that city about
the middle of the third century, and after a peace of thirty-eight years. ..."
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