eighty-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 89.
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being one of 89 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-ninth part, especially of one (1/89).
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the eighty-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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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
He died in 1707 in the eighty-ninth year of his life and the fiftieth of his reign.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
He died December 4th, 1845, in the eighty-ninth year of his age.
From A History of Pantomime by R. J. Broadbent
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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Mrs. Lawrence lived well into the nineteenth century, dying in 1845, in her eighty-ninth year.
From Nathan Hale by Jean Christie Root
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