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seventy-fifth

seventy-fifth

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A position at number seventy-five in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛvənˌti fɪfθ/
translation icon : septuagésimo quinto
  • This volume marks the seventy-fifth year of publication of the MEJ. Charles L. Gary, a professor of music education at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a former MENC executive secretary, tells the ongoing story of some of the people who have made the publication a reality and a success.
  • seventy-fifth birthday

Examples

  • The crowning glory would have been gold terra cotta, rising from the sixty-second to the seventy-fifth floor.

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  • Grohmann wrote about Hch exhibitions in 1949, in connection with her sixth birthday, and in 1964 on the occasion of her seventy-fifth birthday exhibition at the Galerie Nierendorf.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The film ranked seventy-fifth on the annual box office charts ("Big Rental 1972").

    Academic text (2017)
  • Even at this very moment, parties with figures clad in red and white must be carrying out fierce battles on the seventy-fifth floor, opened not so long ago.

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  • In recognition of services rendered to France, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday in 1949, Alvin Johnson was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor.

    Academic text (1998)
  • This year also marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of France's Exposition coloniale of 1931.

    Academic text (2006)
  • It was sent to Freud by the Indian Psychoanalytical Society on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, and he gave it "a place of honor" on his desk, to symbolize the "proud conquest."

    Academic text (1990)
  • By the end of the seventy-fifth day of the noisy pro-democracy demonstrations, traffic was flowing by government headquarters on Connaught Road, where once more than a hundred thousand Hong Kong residents congregated in defiance of China.

    Academic text (2015)
  • It has only been four days since the floor boss of the seventy-fourth floor, The Gleameyes, has been defeated, and it should take some time before the boss room on the seventy-fifth floor, the current front lines, is found, but both Asuna and I have no choice but to participate in the boss battle, even if we can desert the labyrinth tower's mapping.

    Blog text (26)
  • The town just celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday.

Synonyms

75th
vsseventy-fifth
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Coming after seventy-four and before seventy-six in a series

is the same meaning but written out in words

How Late

hundredth
14 1.0
seventy-fifth
1 1.0
fiftieth
7 1.0
twenty-fifth
5 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

seventy-fifth positive

Morphology

seventy-fifth = seventy + fifth (transparent) = seventy + fifth

Formed by combining the cardinal 'seventy' and the ordinal 'fifth'; meaning (75th) is directly derivable.

Etymology

Seventy-fifth comes from seventy, meaning 'seven tens', and fifth, which comes from 'five' and shows a position. So seventy-fifth means 'the 75th' in a list or order.