Definitions for ninety

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ninety nine·ty

Spelling: [nahyn-tee]

IPA: /ˈnaɪn ti/

Ninety is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in ninety (einnty).

Definitions for ninety

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten times nine.
2. a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. nineties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 90 through 99, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature:

adjective

1. amounting to 90 in number.

Origin of ninety

before 1000; Middle English nineti, Old English nigontig. See nine, -ty¹

Examples for ninety

ninety miles from American shores, the Castro family rules over the island prison of Cuba guided by communist principles.

The marketman handed Robert ninety cents, which he pocketed with satisfaction.

Diablo's got ninety to carry, an' he gave the other twenty pounds to-day.

ninety percent of women waiters get harassed sexually, according to a recent study.

Would not any one think, now, you were an old man of ninety?

Do you mean that you have earned ninety cents to-day, Robert?

The wood, therefore, was perhaps eighty or ninety years old.

ninety minutes later, Scheunemann told the organizers of the ski club about the chairlift incident.

At Space ninety 8, you can sport your hipster badge with pride.

There only be nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety pound here.