NINETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ninety mean? 

• NINETY (noun)
  The noun NINETY has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine

  Familiarity information: NINETY used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. being ten more than eighty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINETY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

90; ninety; XC

Hypernyms ("ninety" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• NINETY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than eighty

Synonyms:

90; ninety; xc

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Her beam, or width, is twenty-three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You found out the plot; you found Ben Gunn—the best deed that ever you did, or will do, though you live to ninety.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But now, from what little I've seen of them, they strike me as a pack of ninnies, most of them, and ninety percent of the remainder as bores.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, they are about one hundred and ninety miles from London, a considerable journey.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ninety volunteers, aged between 19 and 40 years old, were recruited and split into three groups.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

He knows more about training than any man alive, and he has walked ninety miles in twenty-one hours.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During the night, it is normal to experience four or five complete cycles, each lasting around ninety minutes.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

These spaces form anastomosing patterns and comprise at least ten percent but less than ninety percent of the tumor.

(Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor with Retiform Elements, NCI Thesaurus)

A natural number greater than eighty-eight and less than ninety and the quantity that it denotes.

(Eighty Nine, NCI Thesaurus)