sixty-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
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being one of 67 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-seventh part, especially of one (1/67).
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the sixty-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday.
From Literature
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Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:
From Los Angeles Times
We’d go north on Jeffery and then west on Sixty-Seventh Street, then north again, zagging and stopping every two blocks to collect more people.
From Literature
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After a trip to see Blackwood and his son, Sheridan, in Ireland, Lowell died of a heart attack, on September 12, 1977, in a taxicab taking him from J.F.K. to Hardwick’s apartment, on West Sixty-seventh Street—a poignant twist for the biographers Hardwick had been dreading for years.
From The New Yorker
When Saveur profiled Heatter, in 1997, the magazine republished her East Sixty-seventh Street Lemon Cake, one of her earliest Times recipes.
From The New Yorker
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