sixty-first
Americanadjective
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next after the sixtieth; being the ordinal number for 61.
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being one of 61 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-first part, especially of one (1/61).
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the sixty-first member of a series.
Example Sentences
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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 Marryat, Frederick
He died in the sixty-first year of his age, having entered upon the forty-second year of his Religious Life, and he was buried on the right side of Brother John Zuermont.
From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.
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
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