eighty-nine

American  

[ay-tee-nahyn] / ˈeɪ tiˈnaɪn /

noun

• eighty-nines
  plural

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 89 in number.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• eighty-nines
  plural

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

eighty-nine eighty-nines

Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

I thought about all of this again when I learned that the movie producer Robert Evans had died, this past Saturday, at age eighty-nine, in his home in Beverly Hills.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2019

A chart of eighty-nine boxes connected by a blizzard of lines mapped out each executive’s place in the hierarchy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019

On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2018

John Joly of Dublin strenuously insisted well into the 1930s that the Earth was no more than eighty-nine million years old, and was stopped only then by his own death.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Nothing much else under ninety, though; one or two eighty-nines, I believe, and an eighty-eight; better get limbered up a bit, Jack; it’s getting near our turn.

From The Carleton Case by Ellery H. Clark

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