Definitions
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- adjective the ordinal number of one hundred fifty in counting order
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Examples
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Which is a damn shame, as we get tired with the process after about the hundred-and-fiftieth kid at our door.
Still windy jhetley 2006
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Shortly after I came to Durham, my father sent me a paper celebrating either their hundredth or hundred-and-fiftieth birthday — I've forgotten which.
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A countryman came out of an inn with a mug of drink for the singer, who checked his song at about the hundred-and-fiftieth stanza, to take the mug with a "Thank ye, mate," and hand it to his sick friend.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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Sir, -- Although in my hundred-and-fiftieth year I can still recollect my school days with crystal clearness, and it pains me to find a lot of young Etonians claiming to have had dealings with the original Jobey.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 Various 1898
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Guy was a vastly miserable man by the time the last guest had bidden him good-night, and he had heard for the hundred-and-fiftieth time what a delightful evening it had been.
Aikenside Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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It dawns upon him, that she is by all odds the prettiest girl in the house, and that slowly but surely, for the hundred-and-fiftieth time in his life, he is falling in love.
A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860
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He invited the writer to address the group on "study day," an annual springtime gathering of Eliot aficionados, which this year was to celebrate the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The Mill on the Floss."
The New Yorker Rebecca Mead 2011
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A small gathering at the JujoMukti Tea Lounge, in the East Village, marks the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the major Bengali poet and writer, who, among his many accomplishments, was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011
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As part of the Next Wave Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is celebrating its hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, presents this multimedia work.
The New Yorker NewYorker.com 2011
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As part of the Next Wave Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is celebrating its hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, presents this multimedia work.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011
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