ninety-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
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being one of 97 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-seventh part, especially of one (1/97).
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the ninety-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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“Moonlight,” which won Best Picture the year before, came in ninety-seventh.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2018
On the two hundred and ninety-seventh day of Edward’s ordeal, a storm came.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
Near the ninety-seventh meridian the rainfall of this region becomes insufficient for general farming in ordinary years.
From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.
"Not until he has sung the last verse," said Tom Seddon; "and the song is longer than the ninety-seventh selection of Psalms as versified by Sternhold and Hopkins."
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George
You see them in the newspapers sometimes in their ninety-eighth or ninety-seventh year, I've noticed lately.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
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