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.
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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
It was Odsordny Anner, the eighty-first day of our journey; we were eleven days over Estraven’s proposed schedule.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"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
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
To which of the surviving sons would the eighty-first lord give the stone?
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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