eighty-nine
Definition
- 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).
Adjective
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being nine more than eighty
