eighty-fourth

[ ey-tee-fawrth, -fohrth ]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-third; being the ordinal number for 84.
2. being one of 84 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-fourth part, especially of one (1/84).
2. the eighty-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

This past December, as what would have been my mother’s eighty-fourth birthday approached, I kept dreaming of death.

From The New Yorker

Four years later, she won a seat in the Georgia House, representing the Eighty-fourth District, which encompassed part of the east side of Atlanta.

From The New Yorker

“But I can’t see what they’d want with us. I mean to say, what particular good is an eighty-fourth world to them? And not, I take it, a very clever world for we don’t have Star Ships and so on, as they all do.”

From Literature

Shostakovich, only twenty-nine years old, was a rising star among Soviet composers, and his show was a hit; when Stalin came to see it, it was enjoying its eighty-fourth performance at the Bolshoi, after a successful première in Leningrad in 1934, and appearances in several European and American cities.

From The New Yorker

This devastating and largely correct physical analysis was written in Wallace’s eighty-fourth year.

From Literature