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eighty-fifth

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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of eighty-five equal parts of a whole.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective the ordinal number of eighty-five in counting order

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Examples

  • By this time, Brother Curtis was approaching his eighty-fifth birthday.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • The day came that Louise threw a party for herself to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday.

    Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin Jerry Ratch 2011

  • By this time, Brother Curtis was approaching his eighty-fifth birthday.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • I had heard that on his upcoming eighty-fifth birthday, the former president planned to go skydiving, as he had done on several other landmark birthdays.

    How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment Gregory Levey 2010

  • At the beginning of 1947, when eighty-year-old Klara was no longer able to care for her, Helene Simon moved to a private nursing home, where she died on December 8, 1947, shortly after her eighty-fifth birthday.

    Helene Simon. 2009

  • Our country's claim: Oration at the citizens 'celebration of the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States delivered in Norombega Hall, Bangor, July 4th, 1861 by Samuel Harris

    ASTOUNDING GRANDMAS RECITE FOUNDING PAPAS' WORDS 2009

  • She died there on her eighty-fifth birthday, but was buried in Jerusalem.

    Adolphine Schwimmer-Vigeveno. 2009

  • Although she decided not to return to Berlin to live, she received reparations and a pension from her homeland; the City of Berlin honored her on the occasion of her eighty-fifth birthday.

    K��te Frankenthal. 2009

  •            The day came that Louise threw a party for herself to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday.

    Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin 2009

  • Betty Friedan died of congestive heart failure at her home in Washington, DC, on her eighty-fifth birthday, February 4, 2006.

    Betty Friedan. 2009

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