eighty-fifth
[ey-tee-fifth]
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adjective
next after the eighty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 85.
being one of 85 equal parts.
noun
an eighty-fifth part, especially of one (1/85).
the eighty-fifth member of a series.
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Historical Examples of eighty-fifth
On the 1st of March he reached his eighty-fifth year, and his wife Emma her fifty-fourth.
Wilford WoodruffMatthias F. Cowley
These belonged to the Eighty-fifth and Thirty-second Regiments.
Montreal 1535-1914, Volume II (of 2)William Henry Atherton
He wanted three weeks exactly to complete his eighty-fifth year.
Life and Letters of Robert BrowningMrs. Sutherland Orr
She had completed in the preceding December her eighty-fifth year.
In any case, a warm-blooded mammal in the eighty-fifth parallel!
Farthest NorthFridtjof Nansen