ninetieth
/nahyn-tee-ith/US // ˈnaɪn ti ɪθ //UK // (ˈnaɪntɪɪθ) //
第九十次,第九十,第九十届,第九十期
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : next after the eighty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 90.
- : being one of 90 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a ninetieth part, especially of one.
- : the ninetieth member of a series.
Examples
Neither retirement nor a ninetieth birthday slowed his publication rate.
The same ideas precisely are found in the ninetieth hymn of the tenth book of the Rig-Veda.
Mrs. Singleton is now in her ninetieth year but for some time past has been an invalid.
Again, if he be perfectly formed on the forty-fifth day, he will move on the ninetieth and be born in the ninth month.
On the evening of his ninetieth birthday the old man went up to his wife and kissed her.
It was the hundred and ninetieth mile-post just at her nose, and the dial read eight o'clock and fifty-five minutes to a second.
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