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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number eighty-three, describing a person or thing in position number 83 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of eighty-three equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • Then in his eighty-third year, Franklin had lost his vigor, and was absent for the tavern banter and the evening salons when delegates were at liberty from the State House.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Then in his eighty-third year, Franklin had lost his vigor, and was absent for the tavern banter and the evening salons when delegates were at liberty from the State House.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • I recall them especially this year, my eighty-third.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • Thus it is that I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth.

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • In the autumn of my mothers eighty-third year she died.

    Postcards from Heaven Dan Gordon 2008

  • In the autumn of my mothers eighty-third year she died.

    Postcards from Heaven Dan Gordon 2008

  • In the autumn of my mothers eighty-third year she died.

    Postcards from Heaven Dan Gordon 2008

  • In the autumn of my mothers eighty-third year she died.

    Postcards from Heaven Dan Gordon 2008

  • Just four days before his eighty-third birthday, while dozing before the fireplace in his daughter's home, he fell into the flames and was so badly burned that he died in hospital at Guildford, Surrey, soon afterward on July 16, 1953.

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) 2007

  • The next day, July 1, marked the eighty-third birthday of the Chinese Communist Party.

    Guanxi Robert Buderi 2006

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