thirty-six

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   the cardinal number equal to three tens plus six; 36

   Thirty-six students enrolled in the course.

A compound of thirty + six. Thirty descends from Old English thritig, literally 'three tens,' while six comes from Old English siex or six. Modern English normally hyphenates compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine when they are written as words.

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