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ˈnaɪn tinine·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ninety, 90, XCadjective

    the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine

  2. ninety, 90, xcadjective

    being ten more than eighty

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ninetyadjective

    Nine times ten.

    Etymology: hundnigontig , Saxon.

    Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan. Gen. v. 9.

ChatGPT

  1. ninety

    Ninety is the numerical value equivalent to nine times ten, represented in Roman numeral as XC, and falls between eighty-nine and ninety-one. It can also refer to the 90th item in a series. It is considered an even number and can be categorized as a "unitary perfect number".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ninetyadjective

    nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men

  2. Ninetynoun

    the sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects

  3. Ninetynoun

    a symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc

  4. Etymology: [See Nine, and cf. Forty.]

Wikidata

  1. Ninety

    Ninety is the second full-length album and first on ZTT Records by British house music pioneers 808 State, released in 1989 and featuring the UK Top 40 single "Pacific State" which reached #10 in November 1989. It was released in the US as Utd. State 90, without "The Fat Shadow," but with other bonus tracks. Slant Magazine listed the album at #54 on its list of the "Best Albums of the 1980s" saying "A thrilling expansion of the possibilities for acid house and arguably the best LP ever produced in the style".

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    Rank popularity for the word 'NINETY' in Written Corpus Frequency: #300

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of NINETY in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of NINETY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of NINETY in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Hagen:

    When you're eating outside the rule is two hours, you really can't leave things sitting out for more than two hours, and if the temperature is above ninety degrees, which it often is at fourth of July,…you can't leave things out for more than one hour. So get them back into the cooler, back into the refrigerator as soon as possible.

  2. George Washington Carver:

    Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  3. W. Wirt:

    He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

  4. Andrew Ainsworth:

    Ninety-nine percent of all legal advice said forget it. Big money always wins, but we honestly believed that nobody can stop you being the artist that you are. They can't take it away from you. They can't take your hands off so you can't use them anymore. It was that ridiculous to us.

  5. Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" -- page 180:

    Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

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