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

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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

Meanwhile the sixty-first battalion had effected an entrance into the castle garden.

From The Baron's Sons by M?r J?kai

Bunyan died of fever, in the house of a friend, at London, August 12th, 1688, in the sixty-first year of his age.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

I met him five years ago in Lucknow, and even at that date he had killed his sixty-first tiger on foot and alone.

From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy

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