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ninety-three

ninety-three

5 1.0
A number equal to ninety plus three
  • numeral
translation icon : noventa y tres
  • No fewer than ninety-three motels lined the street on both the east and west sides of town.
  • Ninety-three percent

Examples

  • Mr. Fadnick is ninety-three and doesn't have any fat on him at all.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The 118 elementary and K-8 schools have ninety-three general music and eighty-two instrumental music programs.

    Academic text (2004)
  • I don't think it had been less than ninety-three degrees since I arrived.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • I lived for one year in New York, ninety-two to ninety-three.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Ninety-three participants completed the experiment using assigned scales.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Ninety-three undergraduate students from the University of Northern Iowa human participant pool participated in the experiment for extra course credit.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Ninety-three European American children from Ithaca, New York, and 87 Chinese children from Beijing, China, participated.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Ninety-three (93) teachers were surveyed after using an intensive phonics program for four months.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Nonetheless, when Rittenhouse compared the Norriton observations with those from Greenwich, he came up with a distance of ninety-three million miles (150 million kilometers) between the Earth and Sun, roughly the figure accepted today.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The store was holding a special sale where everything was marked fifty percent off if you spent at least ninety-three dollars.

How Many

ninety-four
7 1.0
ninety-three
5 1.0
ninety-two
8 1.0
ninety
296 1.0

Surface Forms

ninety-three cardinal word
93 cardinal digit
93rd ordinal digit
ninety third ordinal word

Morphology

ninety-three = ninety + three (transparent) = ninety + three

The numeral is a straightforward compounding of two cardinal numbers (ninety + three), so learners can compute the value directly.

Etymology

Ninety-three is made from ninety and three. Ninety means 'nine tens', and the -ty part means 'ten', so ninety-three is nine tens plus three, the number 93.