sixty-ninth

[ siks-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

1. next after the sixty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 69.
2. being one of 69 equal parts.

noun

1. a sixty-ninth part, especially of one (1/69).
2. the sixty-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

On the sixty-ninth move, obviously exhausted, Spassky blundered.

From Literature

Also, and for the same reason, war books like “New York’s Fighting Sixty-Ninth” or “Guadalcanal Diary,” and adventure stories like “Treasure Island” and “Robinson Crusoe.”

From New York Times

The armory’s size reflected the Sixty-Ninth’s towering reputation.

From New York Times

The 69th Regiment had been immortalized as the “Fighting Sixty-Ninth,” by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, and as the “Fighting Irish,” by Joyce Kilmer in his World War I poem.

From New York Times

The two tremendous shows of DeCarava’s black-and-white work currently on view at the David Zwirner Gallery—“Light Break,” at the space on West Nineteenth Street, and “the sound i saw,” on East Sixty-ninth—are the first large-scale exhibitions of his photographs to be mounted in New York since a 1996 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and the timing couldn’t be more ideal.

From The New Yorker