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n. (context fractional English) One of seventy-two equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number seventy-two, describing a person or thing in position number 72 of a sequence.
Usage examples of "seventy-second".
Breckinridge and Reich and to send a coded message to the Hopewell house that the money had been delivered, they proceeded to the town house the Morrows owned on Seventy-second Street in Manhattan.
Frederick Holliger, now of Toledo, formerly a member of the Seventy-Second Ohio, and captured at Guntown, tells me, as his introduction to Andersonville life, that a few hours after his entry he went to the brook to get a drink, reached out too far, and was fired upon by the guard, who missed him, but killed another man and wounded a second.
It thus occupied the maturest years of Augustin’s life from his fifty-ninth to his seventy-second year.
I WAS IN a mood to walk, so I got off the subway at West Seventy-second Street, and grabbed a papaya juice from Gray's across the street.