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Definition of "seventy-nine" []

  • The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty. (noun)

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Use "seventy-nine" in a sentence
  • "Friar Lopinot later claimed to have baptized seventy-nine Jews."
  • "He was fifty-seven at the time, well beyond life expectancy for the era; even so, Old Kinderhook went on to become Much Older Kinderhook, living to age seventy-nine."
  • "Kamehameha at Hilo, "Pool cast back through the calendar;" which makes you seventy-nine, or eight years older than I."