seventy-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
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being one of 74 equal parts.
noun
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a seventy-fourth part, especially of one (1/74).
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the seventy-fourth member of a series.
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He’s had a birthday concert at the club for the past six years; last year’s, his seventy-fourth, was a big to-do.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2014
Her first, they said, had been on Aunt Bert’s seventy-fourth birthday.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Spassky finally moved, but resigned on the seventy-fourth move.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Incredibly, it is Monteverdi’s last opera, The Coronation of Poppea, composed in 1642, his seventy-fourth and final year, that has gone down as one of the most radical dramas, never mind musical dramas, in history.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
He continued to exercise his chosen calling with unwearied activity, until he closed his eventful life in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
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