Definitions

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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number sixty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 65 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of sixty-five equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of sixty-five in counting order

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Examples

  • This paragon of posh celebration, located on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, is known, among other things, for a dance floor that revolves slowly while a live band plays elegant music.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Even Jacques Baptiste, born of a Chippewa woman and a renegade voyageur (having raised his first whimpers in a deerskin lodge north of the sixty-fifth parallel, and had the same hushed by blissful sucks of raw tallow), was surprised.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Even Jacques Baptiste, born of a Chippewa woman and a renegade voyageur (having raised his first whimpers in a deerskin lodge north of the sixty-fifth parallel, and had the same hushed by blissful sucks of raw tallow), was surprised.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • This paragon of posh celebration, located on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, is known, among other things, for a dance floor that revolves slowly while a live band plays elegant music.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Dr. Dwight Lundell, a retired heart surgeon, was crossing items off his “bucket list” before his sixty-fifth birthday.

    The Daily Carrot Principle Adrian Gostick 2010

  • The official business was to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the D-day invasion in France, but Michelle seemed more interested in plotting the Obama invasion.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • One year ago, I was in Normandy covering the ceremonies commemorating the sixty-fifth anniversary of D-Day, marveling at the achievements of the Allied forces in 1944 that battled across Normandy, not only on June 6, but throughout that summer of liberation into September.

    Denise Dennis: Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer 2010

  • Her father wanted to tell her all about the non-surprise surprise birthday party Cynthia was planning for him in a few months, how determined she was to celebrate his sixty-fifth since it was also his retirement year, but Brooke had a hard time focusing.

    Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger 2010

  • Its sixty-fifth anniversary will be marked -- or mourned, if you will -- tomorrow, July 16.

    Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010

  • Its sixty-fifth anniversary will be marked -- or mourned, if you will -- tomorrow, July 16.

    Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010

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