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.
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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
From the eighty-eighth to the eighty-ninth parallel the ice lay in large fields, the surface was less irregular than formerly.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
It was open at the eighty-ninth Psalm, and the only legible words were, "Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin."
From The Old Front Line by John Masefield
Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty’s auspicious reign.
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The interest in the family of Bonaparte and its dreaded pretensions in France was revived by the death of Letizia Buonaparte, the mother of Napoleon, in her eighty-ninth year.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
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