seventy-ninth

Adjective

 * 1)  The ordinal form of the number seventy-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 79 of a sequence.
 * The answer appears on the seventy-ninth page of the book.
 * She finished seventy-ninth in the race.

Usage notes
English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

Abbreviations

 * 79th, 79th

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Esperanto: sepdek-naŭa
 * Finnish: seitsemäskymmenesyhdeksäs
 * Malayalam: എഴുപത്തിഒൻപതാം

Noun

 * 1)  One of seventy-nine equal parts of a whole.
 * A seventy-ninth of 1580 is 20.

Translations

 * Finnish: seitsemäskymmenesyhdeksäsosa