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ninety

/ˈnaɪn.di/

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What does ninety mean?

numeral

  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.

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He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
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But the godly farmers hitched ninety yoke of oxen to the abolition schoolhouse and dragged it into the middle of the swamp.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
In four days after this it took a prodigious leap, rising suddenly from five hundred and fifty to eight hundred and ninety.
Charles MackayMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #636
A good tree will give ninety gallons, and all this must have been contained in the vessels of the apparently dry trunk.
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeagleProject Gutenberg ebook #944