seventy-sixth

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-siksth] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈsɪksθ /

adjective

1. next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.

2. being one of 76 equal parts.

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noun

1. a seventy-sixth part, especially of one (1/76).

2. the seventy-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

“This moment is real,” Sandra Oh informed the audience, at the top of the seventy-sixth annual Golden Globe Awards.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

On his seventy-sixth birthday, a month after Bell Pottinger’s collapse, Bell married Jacky Phillips.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

In the "Y Gododin" of Aneurin, a British poem supposed to have been written in the sixth century, the now obsolete word chynnwr occurs in the seventy-sixth stanza.

From Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Thus he lived in high reputation, till, in his seventy-sixth year, an illness, which tortured him a week, put an end to his life, at Norwich, on his birth-day, October 19, 1682.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel

Arriving at his monastery of Oundle, in Northamptonshire, he was seized with illness, and died there on October 12 in the seventy-sixth year of his age.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Hallett, Cecil Walter Charles