Definitions for ninety
ˈnaɪn tinine·ty

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Ninetyadjective

   Nine times ten.

   Etymology: hundnigontig , Saxon.

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

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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".

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce ninety?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say ninety in sign language?

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. Anna Jameson:

   All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

2. Austin Beutner:

   I was asked yesterday by someone why I didn't just join teachers on the picket line, close our schools, and go to Sacramento( to) fight for more funding. Ninety percent of our funding comes from Sacramento, after all. ... It's a fair question, then I thought for a moment about Virgil Middle School and Telfair Elementary School.

3. The Governor:

   Ninety-two percent of our state's 105 counties have moderate or high levels of community transmission, i know we all want this to be over, we all want to turn to some semblance of normal but we can not return... until this virus is under control, until we flatten the curve, until a vaccine is available, widely distributed and vaccination rates are significant.

4. Sally Curtin:

   The poisoning deaths do include drug overdoses : Ninety percent of poisoning deaths are drug overdoses, and most of them are in older adolescents.

5. Alexander Afendikov:

   Every house has been if not destroyed, then damaged, ninety-nine percent of the glazing has been shattered.

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