90th
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- adjective
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nonagésimo
- What a great way to celebrate my 90th birthday.
- 90th percentile
- 90th birthday
- 90th anniversary
Examples
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Not if you want that money before your 90th birthday.
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Today would have been Howard Zinn's 90th birthday, had he still been alive.
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What a great way to celebrate my 90th birthday.
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How nice that you take an interest in your uncle's 90th birthday.
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I'm headed there in three weeks for my grandfather's 90th birthday celebration.
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Gammy's 90th birthday, and the whole family's coming together.
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It's your 90th birthday.
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It's Meemaw's 90th birthday.
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PHOTO (COLOR): The Mandela Monument in Thokoza Park, Soweto, honors Mandela's 90th birthday.
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An open house celebrating the hospital building's 90th anniversary will be held on Nov. 11.
Synonyms
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In position number 90 in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
90th = 90 (transparent) = 90 + th
The suffix '-th' is a standard English ordinal suffix applied to numbers to indicate order.
Etymology
The word 90th is the number ninety with the ending -th, and it means 'in position number ninety'. It works like 'first' or 'second', but for most numbers we add -th to show order, as in '90th place'.