seventy-ninth

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-nahynth] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈnaɪnθ /

adjective

1. next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.

2. being one of 79 equal parts.

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noun

1. a seventy-ninth part, especially of one (1/79).

2. the seventy-ninth member of a series.

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seventy-ninth

I spoke with Sanders earlier this fall, in Los Angeles, where he had just celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday by playing two shows in the area.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2020

“The Empire State Building has been the location of dozens of movies, the reception site of foreign dignitaries, and even had a World War Two bomber crash into the seventy-ninth floor in 1945.”

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

It was a most extraordinary circumstance for him to miss a single Sabbath from church; and we do not think this occurred a score of times up to his seventy-ninth year.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

Tait speaks of a living female child, born on the one hundred and seventy-ninth day, with no nails on its fingers or toes, no hair, the extremities imperfectly developed, and the skin florid and thin.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

A. B. James, of long service on the Supreme Bench of his State, came from the Ogdensburg district, and George W. Patterson, in his seventy-ninth year, from the Chautauqua district.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine