ninety-seventh

[ nahyn-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
2. being one of 97 equal parts.

noun

1. a ninety-seventh part, especially of one (1/97).
2. the ninety-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

"This is Ninety-Seventh Street. We're still a long way from home."

From Literature

“Moonlight,” which won Best Picture the year before, came in ninety-seventh.

From The New Yorker

On the way in from the airport, late one night, my taxi lowered into the Manhattan landscape and came to a stop at a red light at Ninety-seventh Street, just off Second Avenue.

From The New Yorker

On the two hundred and ninety-seventh day of Edward’s ordeal, a storm came.

From Literature

This was in a stranded wedge of park, a triangle bounded by the branches of the Ninety-seventh Street Transverse and Fifth Avenue.

From The New Yorker