eighty-second
Americanadjective
-
next after the eighty-first; being the ordinal number for 82.
-
being one of 82 equal parts.
noun
-
an eighty-second part, especially of one (1/82).
-
the eighty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Inside the building, an American flag lay draped over the late senator’s closed casket—it would have been his eighty-second birthday.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2018
Gardiner won the five-hundred-and-twenty-four-lap race in two hours and thirty-seven minutes. Pietri retired, with blisters, in the four hundred and eighty-second lap.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2015
Willie Nelson celebrated his eighty-second birthday in April, just a few weeks after his fellow-country-music icon Merle Haggard turned seventy-eight.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2015
In that case, it will be published around my eighty-second birthday.
From Forbes • Feb. 13, 2013
The investiture and subsequent celebrations went on for almost a month, after which the young eighty-second Lord of Stormhold got on with the business of ruling.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
