ninety-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
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being one of 94 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-fourth part, especially of one (1/94).
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the ninety-fourth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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In the artist’s ninety-fourth year, two institutions on opposite coasts are hosting modest presentations of her career, which began in fervor in 1960, more or less.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019
This coming week, The New Yorker will be celebrating its ninety-fourth anniversary.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2019
Stevenson was born at the commencement of the century, and is therefore now, 1893, in his ninety-fourth year.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson
He passed his ninety-fourth birthday on Christmas-day last.
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1870, and of the independence of the United States, the ninety-fourth.
From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington
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