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.
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Hamilton's widow survived him just one-half a century, dying in her ninety-eighth year.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard
She did not die until 1789, when she was in her ninety-eighth year.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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 James Norman Hall
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 Arthur B. Fuller
What many a sign told him was confirmed at last by some passing guards—the first prophet and high-priest of Amon, the grey- haired Rui, had died in the ninety-eighth year of his life.
From Joshua — Volume 3 by Mary J. Safford
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