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eighty-eighth
[ ey-tee-eytth, -eyth ]
adjective
- next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.
- being one of 88 equal parts.
noun
- an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).
- the eighty-eighth member of a series.
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Example Sentences
Alexey Sergeitch died in his eighty-eighth year—in the year 1848, which apparently disturbed even him.
One man died on the eighty-eighth day, and MacSwiney died on the seventy-fourth.
Now, though the city has encompassed it, there is still left the one green spot by the riverside beyond Eighty-eighth Street.
After a sharp walk of half an hour, we reached a small hut, where two sentries of the Eighty-eighth were posted at the door.
The evening's entertainments concluded with "Mother Goose," for the eighty-eighth time, not the eighty-second.
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