ninety-eighth

[nahyn-tee-eytth, -eyth]

adjective

1. next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.

2. being one of 98 equal parts.

noun

1. a ninety-eighth part, especially of one (1/98).

2. the ninety-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

On a Monday in March—St. Patrick’s Day, 1986—I met again with Father Zogby, and he invited me to a dinner party that evening at the West Side Jesuit Community, on Ninety-eighth Street.

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Graham, who had his ninety-eighth birthday yesterday, might be annoyed at the comparison, but he sounded not unlike the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the runner-up Democratic candidate, when he wrote, “I am convinced that regardless of the outward appearance of prosperity within the corporate life of America today there is present a form of moral and spiritual cancer which could ultimately lead to the country’s destruction unless the disease is treated promptly and the trend reversed.”

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My friend Si Lewen, the painter, died three months ago, a little shy of his ninety-eighth birthday.

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In 1820, three of the four bands into which they have been for a long time divided resided on the banks of the Platte and its tributaries, with a reservation on Loup Fork, on the ninety-eighth meridian.

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The Eighth and Ninety-eighth British regiments, the Nova Scotia Fencible Infantry, with a battery of Artillery and a company of Engineers composed the Garrison of Halifax.

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