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[ nahyn -tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈnaɪn ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun, plural nine·ties. a cardinal number, ten times nine.
a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC.
a set of this many persons or things.
nineties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 90 through 99, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature: His grandmother is in her nineties.
adjective amounting to 90 in number.
Origin of ninety before 1000; Middle English nineti, Old English nigontig. See nine, -ty1
Words nearby ninety nineteenth hole, nineteenth man, ninetieth, nine-to-five, Ninette, ninety , ninety-day wonder, ninety-eight, ninety-eighth, ninety-fifth, ninety-first
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British Dictionary definitions for ninety noun plural -ties the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 90, XC, etc, representing this number
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 90 units
determiner amounting to ninety ninety times out of a hundred (as pronoun ) at least ninety are thought to be missing Word Origin for ninety Old English nigontig
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