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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Of General Oglethorpe, it may be added that he lived to reach his ninety-eighth year.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
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
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
This lady was destined to survive her husband half a century, and to be associated with two ages of the country,—her death occurring in 1854, in her ninety-eighth year.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
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
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