seventy-third
Americanadjective
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next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
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being one of 73 equal parts.
noun
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a seventy-third part, especially of one (1/73).
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the seventy-third member of a series.
Example Sentences
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But the seventy-third annual Golden Globes, which aired last night, weren’t fun-drunk, at least for those of us watching at home.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016
President Hoover had remembered that the day was the seventy-third anniversary of the birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
He died in the Soldiers’ Home at Quincy, Illinois, April 23, 1889, in the seventy-third year of his age.
From Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Roster and Record by Brown, Andrew
On March 31 I shall enter on my seventy-third year: and none of my Family reaches over seventy-five.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis
This was written in his seventy-third year, two years before his death, and this must have been about the time of Hawthorne's visit to him.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
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