eighty-five

[ ey-tee-fahyv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a cardinal number, 80 plus 5.
a symbol for this number, as 85 or LXXXV.
a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

amounting to 85 in number.

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The eighty-five year-old woman was freed by Hamas two weeks later.

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Unremarkables don’t know that eighty-five percent of their household problems are the result of haints, demons, ghouls, and other Remarkable creatures.

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People eighty-five and older are "the fastest growing segment of the US population."

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He claimed — and still claims, in fact — that the limit of life expectancy is about eighty-five years.

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If it happens December 17, he wins eighty-five bucks.

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eighty-first eighty-four

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