Definitions for ninetieth

ninetieth nine·ti·eth

Spelling: [nahyn-tee-ith]
IPA: /ˈnaɪn ti ɪθ/

Ninetieth is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in ninetieth (eehiinntt).

Definitions for ninetieth

noun

  1. a ninetieth part, especially of one (1/90).
  2. the ninetieth member of a series.

adjective

  1. next after the eighty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 90.
  2. being one of 90 equal parts.

Origin of ninetieth

before 1100; Middle English nyntithe, Old English nigenteotha. See ninety, -eth2

Examples for ninetieth

The colonel of the ninetieth Rhode Island fell at twenty-two.

Light and heat, at his distance, are only one ninetieth of those at the Earth.

As late as her ninetieth year men made vehement love to her.

They were both born in 1800, and died, she in her eighty-second, he in his ninetieth year.

He began it in his fortieth year, and did not finish it until his ninetieth .

Mr. Tappan died March 25, 1871, in the ninetieth year of his age.

In full-front view he did not look like a man in his ninetieth year.

Theophrastus began his "Character of Man" on his ninetieth birthday.

He died at Rome, on February 18, 1564, in the ninetieth year of his age.

Neither retirement nor a ninetieth birthday slowed his publication rate.

Word Value for ninetieth
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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