NINETY-NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ninety-nine mean? 

• NINETY-NINE (adjective)
  The adjective NINETY-NINE has 1 sense:

1. being one less than one hundred and nine more than ninety

  Familiarity information: NINETY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINETY-NINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one less than one hundred and nine more than ninety

Synonyms:

99; ic; ninety-nine

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Well, there it is, with ninety-nine brothers of different ages but all of the same size.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Ninety-nine out of a hundred would do the same.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A natural number greater than ninety-nine and less than one hundred-one and the quantity that it denotes.

(One Hundred, NCI Thesaurus)

We were right in principle, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic of events, the accuracy of our judgment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Well, because it's better than ninety-nine per cent of what is published in the magazines."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)