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sixty-first

[ siks-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the sixtieth; being the ordinal number for 61.
  2. being one of 61 equal parts.


noun

  1. a sixty-first part, especially of one (1/61).
  2. the sixty-first member of a series.

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Example Sentences

At Sixty-first Street he halted before the revolving facets of the entrance to Costellos.

You must taxi up to Sixty-first Street with us, and just glance at the house, or we shall be so hurt.

He died in the ninth year of his exile, and the sixty-first of his age.

We turn to the prophecy and discover that the passage is found in the sixty-first chapter and first and second verses of the book.

He died in 1626, in the sixty-first year of his age, and was buried in the chapel of his own college.

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