What does ninety mean?

Definitions for ninety
ˈnaɪn tinine·ty

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ninety.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ninety, 90, XCadjective

    the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine

  2. ninety, 90, xcadjective

    being ten more than eighty

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ninetyadjective

    Nine times ten.

    Etymology: hundnigontig , Saxon.

    Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan. Gen. v. 9.

ChatGPT

  1. ninety

    Ninety is the numerical value equivalent to nine times ten, represented in Roman numeral as XC, and falls between eighty-nine and ninety-one. It can also refer to the 90th item in a series. It is considered an even number and can be categorized as a "unitary perfect number".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ninetyadjective

    nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men

  2. Ninetynoun

    the sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects

  3. Ninetynoun

    a symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc

  4. Etymology: [See Nine, and cf. Forty.]

Wikidata

  1. Ninety

    Ninety is the second full-length album and first on ZTT Records by British house music pioneers 808 State, released in 1989 and featuring the UK Top 40 single "Pacific State" which reached #10 in November 1989. It was released in the US as Utd. State 90, without "The Fat Shadow," but with other bonus tracks. Slant Magazine listed the album at #54 on its list of the "Best Albums of the 1980s" saying "A thrilling expansion of the possibilities for acid house and arguably the best LP ever produced in the style".

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ninety' in Written Corpus Frequency: #300

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ninety in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ninety in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ninety in a Sentence

  1. Thornton:

    Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  2. Holly Shulman:

    Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human activity has led to climate change. Ninety-seven percent. But Jeb Bush thinks they're wrong. Who's being intellectually arrogant now?

  3. Trong Young:

    One of the best ways to judge the FB trends in a city is to see what the hotels are doing, recently Anti:dote at Fairmont Hotel and Manhattan Bar at Regent Singapore hotel opened, while Four Seasons hired one of the greatest bartenders in history -- Javier de lad Muelas -- to consult on its beverage and cocktail list at One Ninety bar.

  4. Dorothea Kent:

    A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

  5. Margo Woota:

    Ninety percent of American kids eat too much sodium every day, schools have been moving in the right direction, so it makes no sense to freeze that progress in its tracks — and allow dangerous high levels of salt in school lunch.

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