eighty-first
Americanadjective
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next after the eightieth; being the ordinal number for 81.
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being one of 81 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-first part, especially of one (1/81).
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the eighty-first member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Steinem finished the book in February this year, or, as she puts it, “seventeen deadlines late,” and in March she celebrated her eighty-first birthday, with a small dinner cooked by a group of friends.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
On February 19, McCandless called Franz, collect, to wish him a happy eighty-first birthday; McCandless remembered the date because his own birthday had been seven days earlier: He had turned twenty-four on February 12.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"There," whispered the eighty-first lord, and he fell to the stone floor of his chamber, and he breathed no more.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The eighty-first Lord of Stormhold lay dying in his chamber, which was carved from the highest peak like a hole in a rotten tooth.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
To which of the surviving sons would the eighty-first lord give the stone?
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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