seventy-ninth

[ sev-uhn-tee-nahynth ]

/ ˈsɛv ən tiˈnaɪnθ /

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

being one of 79 equal parts.

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

the seventy-ninth member of a series.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 7

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He was at the chorus of the song; and it was the seventy-ninth time he had sung it since two o'clock in the afternoon.
The Man With the Black Feather|Gaston Leroux
On the 26th of July, 1881, he was found dead in his home at Oulton, in his seventy-ninth year.
Old Familiar Faces|Theodore Watts-Dunton
These pigheads had never thought to question his presence in the backyard of the house in Seventy-ninth Street.
The Drums Of Jeopardy|Harold MacGrath
When Ross retraced his steps, the expedition had advanced as far as the seventy-ninth degree of south latitude.
The Ocean World:|Louis Figuier

I am now living on borrowed time, being in my seventy-ninth year.
Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured|Chas. Cluthe & Sons