thirty-two

noun

thir·​ty-two ˌthər-tē-ˈtü How to pronounce thirty-two (audio)
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

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One thirty-two-year-old woman experienced violence in one relationship. JSTOR Daily, 13 Oct. 2025 The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 The startup, co-founded by twenty-year-old Kristian Lukauskis of Miami, twenty-year-old Alexander Dillon of London, and thirty-two-year-old Sairam Vangapally, says sellers on Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, and WooCommerce will be able to run key tasks with a single plain sentence. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 My father was a thirty-two-year-old tank commander who had crossed to occupied France shortly after D-Day, fought in the savage battle for Caen and then on through northern France. Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025 An all-stadium tour, the trek comprised of thirty-two concerts with a 40-song setlist each night. Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025 The mom-to-be's post garnered over thirty-two thousand reactions with thousands of Redditors taking to the comment section to discuss. Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025 Finally, at thirty-two, that once comforting form of control had led to my demoralization. Hazlitt, 11 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of thirty-two was in the 15th century

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“Thirty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirty-two. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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