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ninety-four

ninety-four

7 1.0
A number that is ninety plus four
  • numeral
translation icon : noventa y cuatro
  • The store has a sale on shoes priced at ninety-four dollars each.
  • ninety-four percent

Examples

  • Acid gases will be approximately ninety-four percent controlled.

    Academic text (1993)
  • "And my mother lived to be ninety-four."

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Ninety-four percent of the 53 directors of social services were white, and the remaining 6 percent were black.

    Academic text (1995)
  • This special issue of Southwest Review is remarkable in the magazine's ninety-four year history for several reasons.

    Academic text (2009)
  • In January 1948, the document was published as a ninety-four-page book and widely distributed.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Participants in this study were ninety-four parents of seventh-grade students in four physical education and two health classes, all taught by the same teacher.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Ninety-four percent of respondents were between the ages of 25 and 34.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Ninety-four participants representing eighteen American states and four other countries attended the four-and-a-half-day event.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Twenty-three thousand of the town's ninety-four thousand residents are Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In 1998, almost ninety-four percent of Mexican exports were to the NAFTA region: 87.5% to the United States and 6.3% to Canada.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

xciv
vsninety-four
9.4

A Roman way to write the number 94

is the same number written in words or digits not Roman symbols

How Many

ninety-six
2 1.0
ninety-five
18 1.0
ninety-four
7 1.0
ninety-three
5 1.0
ninety-two
8 1.0

Surface Forms

ninety-four cardinal word
94 cardinal digit

Morphology

ninety-four = ninety + four (transparent) = ninety + four

The compound numeral is formed by the transparent combination of two familiar number words (90 + 4) following standard English numeral conventions.

Etymology

Ninety-four is simply the number ninety plus four, so it literally means 'four more than ninety' or 'ninety and four'. A helpful image is ninety objects in a row with four extra ones added to make ninety-four, which shows why the word names that many things.