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sixty-eighth

[ siks-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

  1. next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
  2. being one of 68 equal parts.


noun

  1. a sixty-eighth part, especially of one (1/68).
  2. the sixty-eighth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

In his sixty-eighth year he proposed to translate the whole Ilias; his most pleasing productions were written in his old age.

He was then in his sixty-eighth year, and left the world blessed by the priests but cursed by his people.

He died in Paris on the 15th of March 1891, having just completed his sixty-eighth year.

Fifty-fourth week, joy expressed by crowing, some very high tones; first distinct s, three hundred and sixty-eighth day .

The kindly, genial, gifted man died in 1872, in his sixty-eighth year.

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