ninety-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.
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being one of 98 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-eighth part, especially of one (1/98).
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the ninety-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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We have played our latest phonograph record for the five hundred and ninety-eighth time.
From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman
To-day, the three hundred and ninety-eighth is coming forth;--;for heaven has protected our noble master, who has been in great danger.
From Lover's Vows by Inchbald, Mrs.
This is Rose Cheny, whom we saw in her ninety-eighth personation of Clarissa Harlowe, and afterward in Genevieve and the Protégé sans le Savoir,—a little piece written expressly for her by Scribe.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
Where is there another old man as lusty as Jean R�hu, whose ninety-eighth birthday we celebrated yesterday evening by a dinner at Voisin's?
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)
She died in October, 1822, in the ninety-eighth year of her age.-E.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
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