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seventy-fourth

[ sev-uhn-tee-fawrth, -fohrth ]

adjective

  1. next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  2. being one of 74 equal parts.


noun

  1. a seventy-fourth part, especially of one (1/74).
  2. the seventy-fourth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

One man died on the eighty-eighth day, and MacSwiney died on the seventy-fourth.

He sang with gusto as the elevator lifted him up to the seventy-fourth floor of the Grand Central Hotel.

On the 10th the Forward left Hingston Bay on the right, near to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude.

He died March 26, 1622, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

Peter Franklin died in 1766 in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

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