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
His death occurred in Lexington on the twentieth of January, 1870, in the eighty-fifth year of his age.
From The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University by Peter, Robert
Aged as he was, having entered upon his eighty-fifth year, he was intensely interested in the issue of that struggle, and ardently desired to live long enough to witness the triumph of his country's cause.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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