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Definition of Ninety
1. Adjective. Being ten more than eighty.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine.
Definition of Ninety
1. a. Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
2. n. The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
Definition of Ninety
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90. ¹
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Definition of Ninety
1. a number [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninety
Literary usage of Ninety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"THE ninety YEARS' AGONY OF FRANCE. FOR ninety years, since the time when Galonné
called together his Assembly of Notables, and when the voice of the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... and assigns, for the term of ninety-nine years, without impeachment of waste,
upon the trusts hereinafter expressed and declared concerning the same; ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1892)
"(«^- "*' "*' "*" In ninety-Three. ... f:^ Just now to me, 'II understand In
another year, In ninety-Three. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"He concludes that agricultural operations can never be successfully carried on
west of a line about the ninety-eighth meridian, and that attempts to utilize ..."
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