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

In his seventy-ninth year the former tradesman sat down to count deliberately his moral gains.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

On the seventy-ninth ballot I got, in addition, two opposition votes Woodruff had bought for me at eight hundred dollars apiece.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.