ninety-seven

[nahyn-tee-sev-uh n]

noun

a cardinal number, 90 plus 7.
a symbol for this number, as 97 or XCVII.
a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

amounting to 97 in number.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for ninety-seven

Contemporary Examples of ninety-seven

Ninety-seven businesses were destroyed and 2,500 more were damaged.
San Fran Kisses Its 70,000-Person Toilet Goodbye
Jon Rochmis
August 15, 2014
In twenty-one years as a pitcher, Johnson gave up only ninety-seven home runs.
Babe Ruth’s Summer of Records
Bill Bryson
September 29, 2013

Historical Examples of ninety-seven

The mother lived to the age of ninety-seven, but became totally blind.
Heroes of the Telegraph
J. Munro
There were 129 persons on board of whom ninety-seven were lost.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884
Various
Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or the three who succeed?
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
"Ninety-seven and a half dollars," replied the secretary of the treasury.
A Pirate of Parts
Richard Neville
The Ayes were only ninety-seven; the Noes two hundred and nine.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay