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noun
1.
a cardinal number, ten times nine.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
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
5.
amounting to 90 in number.
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Ninety
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example Sentences
- Ninety percent of the function of our site is based on suggestions from users.
- In this hypothetical case, about ninety percent of people agree that it is morally permissible to turn the trolley.
- Ninety percent of the northern snakehead's diet consists of other fish.
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World English Dictionary
| ninety (ˈnaɪntɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | See also number the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine |
| 2. | a numeral, 90, XC, etc, representing this number |
| 3. | something represented by, representing, or consisting of 90 units |
| —determiner | |
| 4. | a. amounting to ninety: ninety times out of a hundred |
| b. (as pronoun): at least ninety are thought to be missing | |
| [Old English nigontig] | |
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