eighty-fifth
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 85.
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being one of 85 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-fifth part, especially of one (1/85).
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the eighty-fifth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Next week, Captain Robert Dollar will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday by sailing on his S. S. President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924.
From Time Magazine Archive
As you see, I am in my eighty-fifth year.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five? Tomorrow is the eighty-fifth day.”
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
The poet’s mother died February 21, 1865, in her eighty-fifth year.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Eugene Parsons
"Your Highness," said the Grand Chew Chew with a deep salaam, "is as old as I. In other words, you are in the ripe and glorious eighty-fifth year of your Majesty's illustrious and useful age."
From The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson
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