eighty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.
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being one of 88 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).
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the eighty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, arrived at 2:30 A.M., several hours before she was to announce the eighty-eighth annual Oscar nominations at a press conference.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
Some of these artists are regulars—this is Barry Blitt’s eighty-eighth New Yorker cover and Lorenzo Mattotti’s thirtieth.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
By then, Shoji had made up her mind that, in her eighty-eighth year, she would share her own account of what happened on the other side of the bomb.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014
When the writer last saw him, in the autumn of 1854, Mr. Pease was in his eighty-eighth year; yet he still possessed the hopefulness and mental vigour of a man in his prime.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
Colonel of the thirty-ninth Regiment, died at Brighton on the 1st instant, in his eighty-eighth year.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
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