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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    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. Albert Einstein:

    I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  2. Thomas Alva Edison:

    Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  3. Angela Onwuachi-Willig:

    For many, many years, it's been presumed that the only qualified candidates were White men, ninety-five percent of all Supreme Court justices have been White men, and I think that there is now unconsciously some of that( reaction) happening.

  4. Mike Huckabee:

    Ninety-three million Americans don't have jobs, and many of them who do have seen their full-time job with benefits they once had become two part-time jobs with no benefits at all.

  5. Thornton:

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

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    a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
    A descant
    B abrade
    C exacerbate
    D flub

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