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
Sir,—Yesterday, which happened to be my ninety-seventh birthday, I spent in reading your wonderful Potted Meat Supplement from cover to cover.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
AnotherPg 237 occupant of the house, who must not be allowed to go unmentioned, was the priest's mother, a charming old lady in her ninety-seventh year.
From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, 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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