seventy-first

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-furst] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈfɜrst /

adjective

1. next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.

2. being one of 71 equal parts.

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noun

1. a seventy-first part, especially of one (1/71).

2. the seventy-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

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seventy-first

At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway.

From Time Magazine Archive

That July, for my seventy-first birthday, I was visited at the cottage at Victor Verster by nearly my entire family.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The seventy-first one they prohibit, and that, too, by the exhumation of an old despotic edict of 1790.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

A little later he was told he came seventy-first, so that his hope of being able to vindicate himself in the Council is almost at an end.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

Colonel Tarleton, hoss, foot and dragoons, with the seventh rigiment and a part o' the seventy-first, will take the big road for Dan Morgan's camp to-morrow at sun-up.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis