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Definition of Thirty-seven
1. Adjective. Being seven more than thirty.
Definition of Thirty-seven
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-six and before thirty-eight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirty-seven
Literary usage of Thirty-seven
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 (1905)
"Stanley Woodward Davenport bad three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight
hundred and nine. Harry Nichols had three hundred and thirty-seven thousand ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"... who visited this and the Northern cities in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
by invitation, including the usual presents and contingent expenditures, ..."
3. The Constitution of the United States of America by United States (1920)
"... was declared in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated March 30,
1870, to have been ratified by twenty-nine of the thirty-seven States. ..."
4. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"CHAPTER thirty-seven "Ix ALL begins with a remarkable exploit of a man called
Brown, who stole with complete success a Spanish schooner out of a small bay ..."
5. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State), Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"... of September one Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Seven, To the first Day of
September in this present year one Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty nine, ..."
6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE THOUSAND AND thirty-seven. [Baked Meats of the Funeral. ... on the rolls of
muster, Our names were thirty-seven; There were just a thousand bayonets, ..."
7. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"THE THOUSAND AND thirty-seven. [Baked Meals of the Funeral. By Private Miles
O'Reilly. ... And the swords were thirty-seven, As we took the oath of service ..."
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