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EIGHTY-NINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eighty-nine mean?
• EIGHTY-NINE (adjective)
The adjective EIGHTY-NINE has 1 sense:
1. being nine more than eighty
Familiarity information: EIGHTY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being nine more than eighty
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
A natural number greater than eighty-nine and less than ninety-one and the quantity that it denotes.
(Ninety, NCI Thesaurus)
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