ninety-nine

[ nahyn-tee-nahyn ]

/ ˈnaɪn tiˈnaɪn /

a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.

a symbol for this number, as 99 or XCIX.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 99 in number.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 9

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The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine percent animal and one percent human.
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Enough that it was a very little error, and one that might have passed ninety-nine times in a hundred.
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Ninety-nine of these families are Christian families, not families of saints—I wish I knew such a village as that!
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