Wiktionary
num. The cardinal number immediately following thirty-eight and preceding forty.
WordNet
adj. being nine more than thirty [syn: 39, ixl]
Usage examples of "thirty-nine".
No Five Points, no Athanasian Creed, no Thirty-nine Articles, separate the men and women of our way of thinking from humanity or from Divinity.
Chapter Thirty-Nine I dived headfirst off the porch, taking Betsey with me.
Cook now scuds across Bering Strait thirty-nine miles to the Chukchee land of Siberia in Asia.
Close on a thousand miles from Lake Illawarra to Adelaide, and in thirty-nine there were no roads-just wild bush.
Sjandra Kei is thirty-nine hundred lights spinward from here, but outside this storm.
On the fifth, I announced that we would protect sixty million acres of pristine national forest in thirty-nine states from road-building and logging, including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the last great temperate rain forest in America.
Mary Ann Holloman, thirty-nine, whose last address was the Regina Residence Hotel, an East Village home to crack addicts and prostitutes.
It showed a 192 THE ODESSA FILE man of about thirty-nine, date of birth June 18, 1925, and the name of Rolf Gunther Kolb.
Ellen recalled Maggie Oates vividly, and the day she was buried too, because that was the day of the hurricane in January, thirty-nine.
King brought new urban outbreaks all over the country, in which thirty-nine people were killed, thirty-five of them black.
Aidan's, of course) who thought that these two elaborated the services beyond what was defensible in terms of mainline Anglicanism and the spirit of the Thirty-Nine Articles.
He had composed a large amount of music, chiefly sacred, including thirty-nine masses and twelve "Oratorios for Good Friday," besides some grotesque pieces intended as burlesques of the musical life of Vienna.
About this time the signal-lieutenant called out that number Thirty-nine (the signal for discontinuing the action) was thrown out by the Commander-in-Chief.
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Advancing blindly and doughtily in column, the Japanese first ran a gauntlet of thirty-nine PT boats, which they drove off with searchlights and secondary battery fire.