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ninety-first

[ nahyn-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
  2. being one of 91 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-first part, especially of one (1/91).
  2. the ninety-first member of a series.

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Example Sentences

This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousand copies.

Since then she has revised it many times, and the ninety-first edition is announced.

It opens with the ninety-first year of the reign of the Judges—a time which corresponds to our year one of the Christian era.

During these succeeding twenty years it has been greatly revised and enlarged, and it is now in its ninety-first edition.

The first meeting, according to the Abb Costaing, was not in a church, but in a meadow—as appears by the ninety-first sonnet.

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