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