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.

Example Sentences

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

The day before, the poet had completed his seventy-ninth year, and by the French people this is regarded as entitling to octogenarian honours.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

I thought so indeed for a man in his seventy-ninth year.

From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn

He lived very nearly to the completion of his seventy-ninth year, having been born May 25, 1803, and his death occurring on the 27th of April, 1882.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell