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ninety-eighth

[ nahyn-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.
  2. being one of 98 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-eighth part, especially of one (1/98).
  2. the ninety-eighth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

With p. 109him was another subaltern, one of the Hundred and Ninety-Eighth.

The next face of the boma was held by the Hundred and Ninety-Eighth.

He was approaching his ninety-eighth birthday when it was suddenly borne in upon him that the end of his life was at hand.

Hamilton's widow survived him just one-half a century, dying in her ninety-eighth year.

Eight hundred and ninety-eighth day, every color rightly named; some guessing on blue and green .

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