sixty-third
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
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being one of 63 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-third part, especially of one (1/63).
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the sixty-third member of a series.
Example Sentences
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These, of course, were the first moments of a blackout that darkened not only Sixty-third Street and Broadway, where we were eating, but a long swath of Manhattan’s West Side, affecting more than seventy thousand Con Ed customers.
From The New Yorker
Trains ran in and out of Englewood constantly, streetcars started operating in the neighborhood while Holmes was there, and he might have even seen an automobile go by on Sixty-Third Street every now and then, but horses were still essential to everyday transportation.
From Salon
In May, 1998, two weeks shy of his sixty-third birthday, Mel got a pass to leave the hospital and hitched a ride to Woodridge, thirty miles away, a town that, unlike Steinbach, the train passed through.
From The New Yorker
Sixty-third on the Race to Dubai before this week, his closing five-under 66 helped move him up 20 places, well inside the all-important top 60.
From Golf Digest
This has been the condition of the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas marquee, on Sixty-third Street and Broadway, for the past six months.
From The New Yorker
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