Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ninety"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ninety \Nine"ty\, a. [See {Nine}, and cf. {Forty}.]
Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ninety \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ninety
adj : being ten more than eighty [syn: {90}, {xc}]
n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
[syn: {90}, {XC}]
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