Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 9 × 10.
- noun A decade or the numbers from 90 to 99.
- noun The decade from 90 to 99 in a century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nine times ten; one more than eighty-nine, or ten less than a hundred: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The sum of ten nines, or nine tens; nine times ten.
- noun A symbol representing ninety units, as 90, or XC, or xc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
- adjective Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after
eighty-nine and beforeninety-one , represented in Roman numerals asXC and in Arabic numerals as90 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being ten more than eighty
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety-fourth, beginning with the words
Travels in Arabia 2003
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By the end of this term ninety souls were added to the flock.
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The angel Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety - fourth, beginning with the words "Have we not gladdened thy breast?"
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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While hilarious and entertaining, I thought it a bit strange that in ninety minutes of discussion they barely mentioned their game.
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Newspapers took two cents of journalism and wrapped in ninety-eight cents of overhead and distraction.
Boing Boing 2009
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He is in ninety percent of the film and rightfully so.
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If I write a two year business plan and receive a loan, I don't think you can measure it's success or failure in ninety days when I have only spent 10% of the loan money.
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Then, let the republicans do their plan of giving tax cuts to the rich and see if it creates jobs and works in ninety days.
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In California thieves can remove a platinum-filled catalytic converter in ninety seconds.
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In California thieves can remove a platinum-filled catalytic converter in ninety seconds.
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