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

You see them in the newspapers sometimes in their ninety-eighth or ninety-seventh year, I've noticed lately.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

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.

She died, not of any disease, but of her ninety-eighth year, which might well bring even the most healthy person to the grave.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm

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.

"Suppose after my ninety-eighth stroke that my ball lies in the pond?" said old Major Jennings with a certain timid conviction.

From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur