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
He then opened the Book, and having given out the ninety-fourth psalm, we sang it with weeping souls; and during the prayer that followed there was much sobbing and lamentations, and an universal sorrow.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
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 George Washington Williams
He died at St. John in 1853, in his ninety-fourth year, leaving numerous descendants.”
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
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