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9️⃣ Number 90th 9️⃣ The 90th one
ninetieth

ninetieth

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The number that shows position 90 in a list
  • noun
  • /ˈnaɪn.ti.əθ/
translation icon : nonagésimo
  • A major goal of achievement test writers is to spread pupils out from high to low or from the ninetieth percentile to the first percentile.
  • ninetieth percentile

Examples

  • "I flatter myself in believing you will like the park," Assad said to me after breakfast, when we were standing in the ninetieth-floor lounge of his scraper, looking down at the huge, wobbling, flashing bubble that covers Legend.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Clarkston VJ, Zollner PA, Smith WP. 2011. Robotic squirrels and infrared cameras: A method for estimating the risk of predator attack. Paper presented at the Ninetieth Annual Meeting.

    Academic text (2012)

  • She celebrated her ninetieth birthday with a big party surrounded by family and friends.

  • In the race, he finished in the ninetieth position, just ahead of several competitors.

  • The book ranked among the top sellers for the ninetieth week in a row.

Synonyms

90th
vsninetieth
11 1.0

The position after eighty-nine in a list

is written in words rather than as digits with a suffix

How High

hundredth
14 1.0
ninetieth
1.0
tenth
100 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

ninetieth singular
ninetieths plural

Morphology

ninetieth = ninety (transparent) = ninety + th

The formation of the ordinal number from the cardinal number 'ninety' is a standard and transparent process in English.

Etymology

Ninetieth comes from the number ninety, which is made from nine meaning '9' and ten, plus the ending -th that turns a number into an order. So the ninetieth person is the one in the '90th' position.