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eighty-fourth
[ ey-tee-fawrth, -fohrth ]
adjective
- next after the eighty-third; being the ordinal number for 84.
- being one of 84 equal parts.
noun
- an eighty-fourth part, especially of one (1/84).
- the eighty-fourth member of a series.
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Example Sentences
The Iron Duke died in his eighty-fourth year, having grown more and more infirm in his last few years.
It represents Mr. Tazewell in his eighty-fourth year, and is under size.
In 1788, in his eighty-fourth year, he returned to Paris, bringing with him a newly-written tragedy.
She died on the 7th of November 1838, in the eighty-fourth year of her age, and retaining her faculties to the last.
According to Ptolemy, Artaxerxes succeeded to the throne in the two hundred and eighty-fourth year of the canon.
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