seventy-ninth

[ sev-uhn-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
2. being one of 79 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-ninth part, especially of one (1/79).
2. the seventy-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

His death took place on the evening of the 8th of June, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.

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He died in his seventy-ninth year, and Racine pronounced a high eulogy upon him, before the academy.

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The Seventy-ninth, headed by its Colonel (Cameron), charged across the hill, and for a short time the contest was severe.

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And surely the Seventy-ninth were not sorry to leave Gibraltar when their piper composed for them so glad a farewell.

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On the 26th of July, 1881, he was found dead in his home at Oulton, in his seventy-ninth year.

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