Nine"ty (?), a. [See Nine, and cf. Forty.]

Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

 

© Webster 1913.


Nine"ty, n.; pl. Nineties ().

1.

The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.

2.

A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.

 

© Webster 1913.

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