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ninetieth
[ nahyn-tee-ith ]
adjective
- next after the eighty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 90.
- being one of 90 equal parts.
noun
- a ninetieth part, especially of one (1/90).
- the ninetieth member of a series.
ninetieth
/ ˈnaɪntɪɪθ /
adjective
- usually prenominal
- being the ordinal number of ninety in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc. Often written: 90th
- ( as noun )
the ninetieth in succession
noun
- one of 90 approximately equal parts of something
- ( as modifier )
a ninetieth part
- the fraction equal to one divided by 90 ( 1 90 )
Word History and Origins
Origin of ninetieth1
Example Sentences
Neither retirement nor a ninetieth birthday slowed his publication rate.
The same ideas precisely are found in the ninetieth hymn of the tenth book of the Rig-Veda.
Mrs. Singleton is now in her ninetieth year but for some time past has been an invalid.
Again, if he be perfectly formed on the forty-fifth day, he will move on the ninetieth and be born in the ninth month.
On the evening of his ninetieth birthday the old man went up to his wife and kissed her.
It was the hundred and ninetieth mile-post just at her nose, and the dial read eight o'clock and fifty-five minutes to a second.
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