seventy-fourth

[ sev-uhn-tee-fawrth, -fohrth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
2. being one of 74 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-fourth part, especially of one (1/74).
2. the seventy-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

Spassky finally moved, but resigned on the seventy-fourth move.

From Literature

More recently, in a tragedy almost too giant for my young mind to take in, one of my fifth-grade classmates—a boy with a sweet face and a tall Afro named Lester McCullom, who lived around the corner from us in a town house on Seventy-Fourth Street—had died in a fire that also killed his brother and sister, the three of them trapped by flames in bedrooms upstairs.

From Literature

For some viewers, this long-awaited Scarlett Johansson solo movie—first hinted at nearly a decade ago!—will be an amazing opportunity to learn more about Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanova, who IGN rated as the seventy-fourth greatest comic book character of all time.

From Slate

If I'm right, all we have to do is walk a straight line across the park to come out on Seventy-Fourth Street on the other side.

From Literature

I keep my eyes on the concrete squares of sidewalk and plod onward, making my way back down from Eighty-Sixth Street to Seventy-Fourth Street.

From Literature