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nine·ty
I. \ˈnīntē, -ti\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English nynety, nigenti, from Old English nigontig, short for hundnigontig, from hundnigontig, n., group of 90, from hund hundred + nigon nine + -tig group of ten — more at eighty
: being one more than 89 in number
< ninety years >
— see number table
II. pronoun, plural in construction
: ninety countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumerated
< ninety are here >
< ninety were found >
III. noun
(-es)
1. : nine tens : twice 45 : three times 30 : five times 18 : six fifteens : fourscore and 10
2.
a. : 90 units or objects
< a total of ninety >
b. : a group or set of 90
3. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 90
4. : the 90th in a set or series
5. : something having as an essential feature 90 units or numbers
6. nineties plural
a. : the numbers 90 to 99 inclusive
< a golf score in the nineties >
< all his grades in that subject are in the nineties >
b.
(1) : the members of a series or set of successive numbers that end in 90 to 99 inclusive
< the nineties of the preceding century >
< lives in the nineties in the next block >
(2) usually capitalized : the years of the last decade of the 19th century
< the Gay Nineties >
< the so-called decadent romantics of the Nineties — Publ's Mod. Lang. Association of American >
c. : the portion of a continuum lying between 90 and 100 on a scale of measurement or segmentation
< temperatures in the high nineties tomorrow >
< a man in his nineties >
< overcoats selling in the nineties > |