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eighty-sixth

[ ey-tee-siksth ]

adjective

  1. next after the eighty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 86.
  2. being one of 86 equal parts.


noun

  1. an eighty-sixth part, especially of one (1/86).
  2. the eighty-sixth member of a series.
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Example Sentences

On February 15, 1906, Anthony traveled to Washington, DC, for her eighty-sixth birthday celebration.

I stopped at the table and told my friends that I had to go, and then walked uptown to my apartment, where I packed, checked the stove, turned off the lights, locked the door behind me, and hurried down the stairs, onto the street and into a cab that just about ran over my foot when I opened the door before the driver had stopped; from there, east on Eighty-sixth Street, left on the F.D.R.

From the small, shadowed space between two ticket machines, just a few feet away from the stairs that lead back to Eighty-Sixth Street, I step out into the dimly lit subway station and walk toward the light.

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.

I make my way down the stairs, taking note that I'm at the Eighty-Sixth Street station.

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