eighty-ninth

American  

[ey-tee-nahynth] / ˈeɪ tiˈnaɪnθ /

adjective

1. next after the eighty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 89.

2. being one of 89 equal parts.

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noun

1. an eighty-ninth part, especially of one (1/89).

2. the eighty-ninth member of a series.

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eighty-ninth

It was Laurelle’s stepfather’s eighty-ninth birthday, so she phoned him in South Africa, and the family warbled “Happy Birthday to You.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2019

The finest and most successful efforts, in my opinion, are the portrait of the aged Field-marshal Count von Moltke, taken in his eighty-ninth year, shortly before his death, and that of Windhorst, the German statesman.

From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Sparrow, Walter Shaw

Michael Angelo, like Lionardo, did not marry; he died at Rome in 1563, in his eighty-ninth year.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah

"FREDDY LEVESON" When a man has died in his eighty-ninth year, it seems irreverent to call him by his nickname.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert