thirty-two

noun

thir·​ty-two ˌthər-tē-ˈtü 

1

: a number that is one more than 31 see Table of Numbers

2

: a .32 caliber handgun

—usually written .32

thirty-two adjective

thirty-two pronoun, plural in construction

Examples of thirty-two in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle. —Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

Of thirty-two teams, more than half have, by year’s end, been playing someone other than their opening-day starting quarterback. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2024

Cayenne, thirty-two, drove a burgundy Harley-Davidson and had a temper. —Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024

The team went searching in their spreadsheets, and a few minutes later returned with confirmation: SNEAKERS were down thirty-two per cent. —Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023

In the production’s loveliest, lightest touch, Ali, while taking the elevator to her apartment, on the forty-second floor, listens to the sounds of her building every time the doors open—merengue on twenty-seven, jazz trumpet on thirty-two. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, the National Labor Relations Board has certified twenty-seven bargaining units at private colleges and universities, comprising more than thirty-two thousand student workers. —E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

Where the asks get very hard to see is around the idea of forty hours of pay for thirty-two hours of work. —Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023

In the Northern European variant of CCR5 deletion, thirty-two base pairs of DNA are missing from both the maternal and the paternal chromosomes. —Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1