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seventy-sixth

[ sev-uhn-tee-siksth ]

adjective

  1. next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
  2. being one of 76 equal parts.


noun

  1. a seventy-sixth part, especially of one (1/76).
  2. the seventy-sixth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

The seventy-sixth Kentucky Derby was over, and the losers walked swiftly, as though in a hurry.

I returned from Geneva to New York city in time to celebrate my seventy-sixth birthday with my children.

He died in London, after a short illness, on the 11th of November 1864, in the seventy-sixth year of his age.

On the 1st of March he died suddenly as the result of a heart attack, some months before completing his seventy-sixth year.

If this happened in 1550, as will appear from the following passage, M. Angelo was then in his seventy-sixth year.

He seemed to understand it, however, and was quickly on his way to the house on Seventy-sixth Street.

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