ninety-eighth

American  

[nahyn-tee-eytth, -eyth] / ˈnaɪn tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

adjective

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

2. being one of 98 equal parts.

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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.

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Peck’s brigade of Couch’s division came, and was put in on the right, the One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania and the Fifty-fifth New York on the left, the Sixty-second New York in the wood, the Ninety-third Pennsylvania on the left, and after a little the Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania.

From Project Gutenberg