ninety-first

American  

[nahyn-tee-furst] / ˈnaɪn tiˈfɜrst /

adjective

1. next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.

2. being one of 91 equal parts.

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noun

1. a ninety-first part, especially of one (1/91).

2. the ninety-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

That he has done so in just his second year in the Senate—where he ranks ninety-first in seniority—is testimony to his extraordinary influence.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 7, 2014

At 11:00 at night on her ninety-first birthday—April 15, 1983—Corrie, in the phrase she had always used, “went home” at last.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“Ninety days and ninety nights without a corpse, and on the ninety-first we wed?”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Suppose a man who does ninety things every day, accurately remembering them, should once or twice forget a ninety-first thing, he'll go on forgetting that afterwards, though he remembers all the rest.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul