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.

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sixty-first

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

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

From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

Bishop Krautbauer was born in the parish of Bruck, near Ratisbon, Bavaria, in 1824, being in his sixty-first year at the time of his death.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various

Under this contract Mr. Stoddard served his congregation for sixty years, and died September 7, 1760, in his eighty-third year, and the sixty-first of his ministry.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman