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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"On my sixty-third birthday I suddenly realized that I had been asleep for twenty-one years — or one third of my life," she writes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2018
He named every guest, including one who would be paying her sixty-third visit.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017
June 2nd was the sixty-third anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
“So that the sixty-third, I take it, is the missing prodigal?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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