sixty-first

American  

[siks-tee-furst] / ˈsɪks tiˈfɜrst /

adjective

1. next after the sixtieth; being the ordinal number for 61.

2. being one of 61 equal parts.

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noun

1. a sixty-first part, especially of one (1/61).

2. the sixty-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

Experimenting with elements created by the Manhattan Project, researchers realized that they could create two different versions, or isotopes, of promethium, the sixty-first atom on the periodic table.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019

One day about noon, Odorny Nimmer, the sixty-first day of the journey that bland blind nothingness about us began to flow and writhe.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He was Head Master of Rugby, 1858 to 1869, consecrated the sixty-first Bishop of Exeter in 1869, translated to London in 1885, and to Canterbury in 1896.

From The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See by Withers, Hartley

I just want to express a sixty-first second sort of a hope that you won't lose interest in The Dispatch.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent

The 4th of July, the sixty-first anniversary of American independence!

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick