eighty-eighth

[ ey-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.
2. being one of 88 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).
2. the eighty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

“Some big spenders with deep pockets are dropping by this afternoon to take a peek. We’re also opening up a showroom on East Eighty-Eighth Street with a model unit. I predict we’ll presell ninety percent of the condos before we even break ground.”

From Literature

“That you are absolutely, one hundred percent correct, Grace. Mr. Huxley plans on tearing down our school and building a high-rise condominium. He calls it Riverview Tower. Because it’s a tower. With a river view. They’ve set up a showroom over on East Eighty-Eighth Street. You can walk around in a model apartment. There’s an artist’s rendering of what the building will look like, and it looks like it’s standing right on top of where our school’s supposed to be.”

From Literature

He was picked eighty-eighth over-all, and not before six other quarterbacks had already been taken by other teams.

From The New Yorker

I then looked through all my pockets, including my raincoat, and finally found a couple of stale letters to reread, one from my wife, telling me how the service at Schrafft’s Eighty-eighth Street had fallen off, and one from my mother-in-law, asking me to please send her some cashmere yam first chance I got away from “camp.”

From Literature

On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, arrived at 2:30 A.M., several hours before she was to announce the eighty-eighth annual Oscar nominations at a press conference.

From The New Yorker