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seventy-fifth

[ sev-uhn-tee-fifth ]

adjective

  1. next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  2. being one of 75 equal parts.


noun

  1. a seventy-fifth part, especially of one (1/75).
  2. the seventy-fifth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

He was the principal chief of the Qualla Indians, and died in the year 1838, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

The greenies on the Sally Sims were on a hundred and seventy-fifth lay.

Baha Ullah died at Acca in May, 1892, in his seventy-fifth year.

Miss Anthony reached Washington on the morning of her seventy-fifth birthday, February 15.

Then she returned at once to her work in asylums, poorhouses, and prisons, continuing this task until past her seventy-fifth year.

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