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eighty-second

[ ey-tee-sek-uhnd ]

adjective

  1. next after the eighty-first; being the ordinal number for 82.
  2. being one of 82 equal parts.


noun

  1. an eighty-second part, especially of one (1/82).
  2. the eighty-second member of a series.

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Example Sentences

He died at Chantilly in his eighty-second year during the absence of both his son and his daughter, and was buried at Saint-Denis.

He died the 6th of April, 1800, in the eighty-second year of his age.

When he went blind, in his eighty-second year, he starved himself.

The evening's entertainments concluded with "Mother Goose," for the eighty-eighth time, not the eighty-second.

He is still living on a farm near Galesburg, Illinois, and is in the eighty-second year of his age.

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