eighty-ninth

[ ey-tee-nahynth ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈnaɪnθ /

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adjective

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

being one of 89 equal parts.

noun

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

the eighty-ninth member of a series.

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Her sister, in her eighty-ninth year, equally unfaded in her great intellectual gifts, still lingers for a while on the scene.
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Mrs. Lawrence lived well into the nineteenth century, dying in 1845, in her eighty-ninth year.
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