ninety-seventh

[ nahyn-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
2. being one of 97 equal parts.

noun

1. a ninety-seventh part, especially of one (1/97).
2. the ninety-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

Then I rubber for the ninety-seventh time at the female warbler, who is standing talking to Frankie, the band leader.

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According to the record I was the ninety-seventh child of my father and born when he was fifty-four.

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Henceforth he lived in retirement until his ninety-seventh year; but from his apparent failure sprang a practical success.

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I found we were on the eighty-fourth parallel, near the ninety-seventh meridian.

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Near the ninety-seventh meridian the rainfall of this region becomes insufficient for general farming in ordinary years.

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