eighty-nine

Thân thiện

The library has eighty-nine books on the top shelf.

Definition

1. Adjective: Being nine more than eighty; the number 89.

Usage

• Used to describe a quantity, position, or identifier that is exactly one less than ninety.
• Functions as a determiner before a noun or as a predicate adjective.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • There are eighty-nine students enrolled in the course.
  • She celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday with family. (Note: This uses the ordinal form 'eighty-ninth', a related variant.)
  • The answer on page eighty-nine is incorrect.

Advanced Usage

• As a numerical designator: Often used in names, model numbers, or titles to indicate the number 89.
  • He lives at Eighty-Ninth Street.
  • The classic car was a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am from 'eighty-nine (1989).

Variants and Related Words

• Eighty-ninth (adj): Constituting number eighty-nine in a sequence; the ordinal form.
  • This is the eighty-ninth edition of the annual report.
• 89 (n): The Arabic numeral representing the number.

Synonyms

• LXXXIX: The Roman numeral for eighty-nine.
• Four score and nine: An archaic phrasing.

Notes

• The word is a compound number formed from the tens digit "eighty" and the units digit "nine."
• It follows the standard pattern for forming numbers between 21 and 99 in English (e.g., twenty-one, forty-seven, eighty-nine).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being nine more than eighty

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