Definition of "eighty-seventh" [eighty-seventh]

• The ordinal form of the number eighty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 87 of a sequence. (noun)
• One of eighty-seven equal parts of a whole. (noun)

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• "A few days shy of his eighty-seventh birthday, William Randolph Hearst had little more than a year to live."
• "For my eighty-seventh birthday, my son Marvin, a retired New York City high school English teacher, sent me a gift certificate for a weekend conference here in Miami on how to pick up women."
• "The actor was at his bedside when Ira Owens Beaty died at Johns Hopkins Medical Center on January 15, 1987, four days shy of his eighty-seventh birthday."