Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of thirty-three equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number thirty-three, describing a person or thing in position number 33 of a sequence.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of thirty-three in counting order [syn: 33rd]
Usage examples of "thirty-third".
THE THIRTY-THIRD CHAPTER How Apuleius was lead away by the Horsekeeper : and what danger he was in.
It was the middle of the thirty-third century, and Polaris traced a larger circle in the north sky than it did in the time of Leibowitz, but the hordes called themselves the people of the Polestar when they wandered.
That day the One Hundred and Thirty-Third Detachment was called, and its Sergeant came up and drew rations for a full detachment.
Queen Sophonisba in Demonland: the marvel of marvels that restored the world on Lord Juss's natal day, the thirty-third year of his life in Galing.
At Thirty-third Street we were reverently shown the twin Astor houses: two tall thin slices of chocolate cake connected by a low wall.
On Monday night, the eleventh day of May, in the thirty-third year of the State of West Virginia, the judge of the criminal court of Gullmore County, and the judge of the circuit court of Gullmore county were to meet together for the purpose of deciding two matters--one relating to the trial of Moseby Allen, the retiring sheriff, for embezzling funds of the county, amounting to thirty thousand dollars, and the other, an action pending in the circuit court, wherein the State of West Virginia, at the relation of Jacob Wade, was seeking to recover this sum from the bondsmen of Allen.
Ferguson in that vast region comprised between the fourteenth and thirty-third degrees of east longitude.
Theodosius was invested with the purple in the thirty-third year of his age.
We came to this point sometime around the thirty-third hour, when I developed an insoluble Writer's Block and began dictating big chunks of the book straight into the microphone -- pacing around the room at the end of an eighteen-foot cord and saying anything that came into my head.