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ninety-third

[ nahyn-tee-thurd ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
  2. being one of 93 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-third part, especially of one (1/93).
  2. the ninety-third member of a series.

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Example Sentences

He did not die till 1855, in his ninety-third year: the last, as he had been the first, of his group.

Over in a corner there lay a few more; we had reached the one hundred and ninety-third, so there could not be many in the pile.

The learned sergeant died in his ninety-third year without having made a second marriage.

The Ninety-third lost 260 men in the Wilderness, out of 433.

"In his ninety-third year," added Mr. Mason, dryly, to his own sentence.

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