Definition of Seventy-fifth

1. Adjective. The ordinal number of seventy-five in counting order.

Exact synonyms: 75th
Similar to: Ordinal

Definition of Seventy-fifth

1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number seventy-five, describing a person or thing in position number 75 of a sequence. ¹

2. Noun. (fractional) One of seventy-five equal parts of a whole. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-fifth

seventh chords
seventh cranial nerve
seventh grade
seventh grades
seventh heaven
seventh inning stretch
seventh sense
seventhly
sevenths
seventies
seventieth
seventieths
seventy
seventy-eight
seventy-eighth
seventy-fifth (current term)
seventy-first
seventy-firsts
seventy-five
seventy-four
seventy-fours
seventy-fourth
seventy-nine
seventy-ninth
seventy-one
seventy-oneth
seventy-second
seventy-seven
seventy-seventh
seventy-six

Literary usage of Seventy-fifth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"The Seventy-Fifth being in the advance, received the Rebels in gallant style, and punished them ... In this engagement the Seventy-Fifth displayed bravery, ..."

2. Journal by Bond & Share Society, New Hampshire Dental Society, American Wine Society, Manning Valley Historical Society (1908)
"seventy-fifth Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, 1906-7. Dublin: A. Thorn & Co. Price is. Amidst a mass of matter in this report ..."

3. Publications by Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.) (1906)
"... in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the purpose of celebrating the Two Hundred and seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Cambridge. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"In his seventy-fifth year he built and endowed a library and museum for the College of Physicians. He died in June, 1657, at the age of seventy-nine, ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... now thou'rt dust; All that remains of thee these plaits unfold, Calm hair, meandering in pellucid gold. 55<? ON His seventy-fifth BIRTHDAY I ..."

6. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"TO HOLMES ON HIS seventy-fifth BIRTHDAY DEAR Wendell, why need count the years Since first your genins made me thrill, If what moved then to smiles or tears ..."

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