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eighty-five

[ ey-tee-fahyv ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈfaɪv /

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noun

a cardinal number, 80 plus 5.

a symbol for this number, as 85 or LXXXV.

a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

amounting to 85 in number.

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Mr. Vassall died at Battersea Rise, England, in 1800, aged eighty-five.
The Loyalists of Massachusetts|James H. Stark
Warren claimed a ditched town, octagonal in shape, measuring in perimeter one thousand three hundred and eighty-five feet.
Stories of Old Kentucky|Martha Grassham Purcell
This looks very like a device for tormenting the old man of eighty-five, and revenging themselves for their previous defeat.
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The thermometer then stood at eighty-five degrees at midnight, and ninety-eight or one hundred at noon.
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It would be eighty-five miles long and would also open up a new country.
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