eighty-third
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-second; being the ordinal number for 83.
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being one of 83 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-third part, especially of one (1/83).
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the eighty-third member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Yet, beginning in his eighty-third year, he struck one more lode in the story of Donald Hall.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018
I watched the semifinal—curled on the floor and wracked with hope—and I swear that Mandžukić didn’t touch the ball until the eighty-third minute.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2018
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, until Barack Obama brought her on as Attorney General, in 2015, making her the eighty-third person and the first African-American woman in the post.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
We allude to his exquisite translation from Goethe, on the eighty-third page—the invocation to the ideal world, which precedes Faust.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
The eighty-third annual commencement of Brown University, at Providence, R. I., took place on the 9th of July.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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