eighty-seventh

[ ey-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 87.
2. being one of 87 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-seventh part, especially of one (1/87).
2. the eighty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

She is now in her eighty-seventh year and is enjoying excellent health, while in possession of all of her faculties.

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The Eighty-Seventh had been in the same command with the Twelfth for about a year.

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The island attains its greatest width at Fourteenth and Eighty-seventh streets.

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Beyond the loss of two days, Cardyke's party reached the eighty-seventh parallel without mishap.

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The occasion was the eighty-seventh birthday of my mother, who still lives near the old homestead.

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