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."

Words like "seventy-nine"

48th 70th arabic numerals cardinal

eighty-seven fifty-seven fifty-six forty-six

ninety-four ninety-seven ninety-three

Roman numerals

seventy-eight seventy-six sixty-four sixty-three