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EIGHTY-NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eighty-nine mean? 

EIGHTY-NINE (adjective)
  The adjective EIGHTY-NINE has 1 sense:

1. being nine more than eightyplay

  Familiarity information: EIGHTY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EIGHTY-NINE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being nine more than eighty

Synonyms:

89; eighty-nine; ixc

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)


 Context examples 


A natural number greater than eighty-nine and less than ninety-one and the quantity that it denotes.

(Ninety, NCI Thesaurus)



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