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
He sank gradually, suffering no pain, and on Friday, the twenty-second of February, in the eighty-fifth year of his age and the fifty-first of his ministry, he breathed his last.
From History of Prince Edward Island by Campbell, Duncan
He died at Mortlake in 1721, having nearly completed his eighty-fifth year; and was buried in All Saints’ church, Bristol.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
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