Ninety

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ninety \Nine"ty\, a. [See {Nine}, and cf. {Forty}.]
     Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Ninety \Nine"ty\, n.; pl. {Nineties}.
     1. The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit
        than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
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     2. A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ninety
       adj : being ten more than eighty [syn: {90}, {xc}]
       n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
           [syn: {90}, {XC}]