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Definition of Eighty-fifth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of eighty-five in counting order.
Definition of Eighty-fifth
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of eighty-five equal parts of a whole. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-fifth
Literary usage of Eighty-fifth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"ANNUAL MEETINGS fill he eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Baptist
Missionary Union will be — held in the First Baptist Church, San Francisco, ..."
2. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884)
"1882. THE FINAL ILLNESS. — THOUGHTS FIXED ON THE WORLD TO COME. — KINDNESS OF
FRIENDS.— MR. WEED'S eighty-fifth BIRTHDAY. ..."
3. Statistical Report by New York (N.Y.). Police Dept (1906)
"... Forty-ninth and eighty-fifth Precincts' stables and prison ward, Borough of
Richmond, leases expired during 1906, and were not renewed. ..."
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