Definition of "seventy-ninth" []

• The ordinal form of the number seventy-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 79 of a sequence. (noun)
• One of seventy-nine equal parts of a whole. (noun)

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• "Near his seventy-ninth birthday I got the call that my dad was in the hospital and not expected to live."
• "On February 17, my seventy-ninth day at sea, and seven hundred miles from Antigua, my satellite phone failed, thus severing my only means of communicating with anyone on dry land."
• "After several days of unconsciousness, he died very peacefully in his house on Drammensvej, opposite the Royal Gardens of Christiania, at half-past two in the afternoon of May 23, 1906, being in his seventy-ninth year."