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ninety
/ˈnaɪn.di/
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What does ninety mean?
numeral
- 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.
Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
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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.
In four days after this it took a prodigious leap, rising suddenly from five hundred and fifty to eight hundred and ninety.
A good tree will give ninety gallons, and all this must have been contained in the vessels of the apparently dry trunk.