eighty-nine
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tiˈnaɪn noun
1.
a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
4.
amounting to 89 in number.
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| eighty-nine | |
adjective | |
| being nine more than eighty |
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Eighty-nine
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
Eddy survived to the age of eighty-nine, outliving all the other members of her immediate family.
Eighty-nine were killed and wounded: the heaviest loss suffered by any regiment in the cavalry division.
Eighty-nine of the ships company, and ten of its prisoners died.
Of the eighty-nine launches that took place worldwide last year, almost half carried commercial communications satellites.
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