eighty-fourth

American  

[ey-tee-fawrth, -fohrth] / ˈeɪ tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ /

adjective

1. next after the eighty-third; being the ordinal number for 84.

2. being one of 84 equal parts.

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noun

1. an eighty-fourth part, especially of one (1/84).

2. the eighty-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

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

The first tree, at Eighty-fourth and Broadway, had a plastic tarp and balloons in it as well as bags.

From The New Yorker

Shortly after sunrise, on June 14, 2015, a Finnish man named Ashprihanal Aalto stood on Eighty-fourth Avenue, in Queens.

From The New Yorker

He tripped in, in his eighty-fourth year, and, when the old officer expressed his astonishment, George exclaimed, “I’ll show you whether he is alive!”

From Project Gutenberg

The glory of the living veteran, however, will remain unique, because he, first of the comic artists of his country, caught the new spirit, avoided the grossness and thoughtless one-sidedness of his predecessors, and used his art in such a manner that now, in his eighty-fourth year, looking back through the long gallery of his works gathered by the affectionate persistence of his admirers, he can not point to one picture which for any moral reason he could wish to turn to the wall.

From Project Gutenberg