sixty-fifth
Americanadjective
-
next after the sixty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 65.
-
being one of 65 equal parts.
noun
-
a sixty-fifth part, especially of one (1/65).
-
the sixty-fifth member of a series.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On April 26, 2007, three months after my sixty-fifth birthday, I did something special: I experienced zero gravity.
From The Guardian
This is the sixty-fifth of seventy-two readings that I will do this year in support of my “Failure.”
From The New Yorker
Today is National Day, commemorating the sixty-fifth birthday of the People’s Republic of China.
From The New Yorker
Italy ranks a rather dismal sixty-fifth on the World Bank’s annual ease-of-doing-business survey; it has dropped twenty places in the past ten years, falling behind Bulgaria, Botswana, and Belarus.
From The New Yorker
He held many places of honor and trust; was finally chief justice of New Brunswick, and died at St. John in 1851 in his sixty-fifth year.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.