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.

Example Sentences

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

Without a mishap we reached the eighty-ninth parallel on December 11th.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The aged widow, now in her eighty-ninth year, still survives, occupying her home in this Colorado town.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

“Salome, there is much sound philosophy in the eighty-seventh and eighty-ninth maxims of cynical Rochefoucauld, ‘It is more disgraceful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

It has been given few women to be so worthily loved as was Alice Adams, from the time we catch our first glimpse of her till the last, in her eighty-ninth year.

From Nathan Hale by Root, Jean Christie