eighty-fifth

[ey-tee-fifth]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 85.

2. being one of 85 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-fifth part, especially of one (1/85).

2. the eighty-fifth member of a series.

Example Sentences

“Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five? Tomorrow is the eighty-fifth day.”

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She had completed in the preceding December her eighty-fifth year.

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Here he devoted himself to his familiar pursuits of hunting and trapping, and in September, 1822, he died, being in his eighty-fifth year.

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The London Medical Record, in noticing his death, which took place on his eighty-fifth birthday, October 27, 1873, remarked that it “had occurred under circumstances highly characteristic of his remarkable career.”

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All the members of the United States Senate signed a telegram to Simon Cameron, now in Florida, congratulating him on his eighty-fifth birthday.

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