ninety
UK/ˈnaɪn.ti//ˈnaɪn.di/
ninety numeral: the cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.
Numeral
ninety
- The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.
- Synonyms:
- 90, XC
ninety meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ninety in Hindi
- 90
- नब्बे nabbe, नव्वे navve
ninety in Tamil
- தொன்னூறு
ninety in Marathi
- ninety
- नव्वद navvad
ninety in Urdu
- 90
- نوے navve, نبے nabbe
More languagesFewer languages
- ninety in Bengali
- নব্বই nobboi
- ninety in Telugu
- తొంభై tombhai
- ninety in Malayalam
- തൊണ്ണൂറ് toṇṇūṟŭ
- ninety in Kannada
- ತೊಂಬತ್ತು, ತೊಮ್ಬತ್ತು, ತೊಂಬತು
- ninety in Punjabi
- ਨੱਬੇ nabbe
- ninety in Gujarati
- નેવુ nevu
- ninety in Odia
- ନବେ nabe
- ninety in Sanskrit
- नवति navatí
- ninety in Sinhala
- අනූව anūwa
- ninety in Assamese
- নব্বৈ nobboi
- ninety in Nepali
- नब्बे nabbe
- ninety in Pashto
- نوي nawi
- ninety in Tagalog
- siyamnapu
- ninety in Arabic
- تِسْعِينَ tisʕīna, تِسْعُونَ tisʕūna
- ninety in Malay
- sembilan puluh
- ninety in Indonesian
- sembilan puluh
- ninety in Persian
- نَوَد navad
- ninety in Thai
- เก้าสิบ gâao-sìp
- ninety in Vietnamese
- chín mươi
- ninety in Myanmar
- ကိုးဆယ် kui:hcai
- Dhivehi
- ނަވައި navai, ނުވަދިހަ nuvadiha
- Dzongkha
- དགུ་བཅུ dgu bcu
Examples of ninety in a sentence
- Martin Luther posted his ninety five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg.
- As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.
- "Ninety per cent of our passengers will know where they are going.
Synonyms of ninety
- 90
- XC
Origin of ninety
From Middle English nynty, nynety, from Old English hundniġontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *newuntēhundą (“ninety”), equivalent to nine + -ty. Cognate with Scots nynty, nynety (“ninety”), Saterland Frisian njuugentich (“ninety”), West Frisian njoggentich (“ninety”), Dutch negentig (“ninety”), German Low German negentig (“ninety”), German neunzig (“ninety”), Swedish nittio (“ninety”), Norwegian Bokmål nitti (“ninety”), Norwegian Nynorsk nitti (“ninety”), Icelandic níutíu (“ninety”).
Words formed from ninety
- ninety days
- ninety-day wonder
- ninety-eight
- ninety-eighth
- ninety-eleven
- ninety-fifth
- ninety-first
- ninety-five
- ninetyfold
- ninety-four
- ninety-fourth
- ninetyish
- ninety-leben
- ninety-leven
- ninety-nine
- ninety-ninety rule
- ninety-ninth
- ninetyodd
- ninety-one
- ninety-oneth
- ninety-second
- ninety-seven
- ninety-seventh
- ninety-six
- ninety-sixth
- ninetysomething
- ninety-third
- ninety-three
- ninety-two
Phrases with ninety
Questions about ninety
- What does ninety mean?
- Ninety means the cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.
- What is ninety in Hindi?
- Ninety in Hindi is नब्बे (nabbe), नव्वे (navve). See Ninety meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ninety?
- Ninety is a numeral.
- How do you pronounce ninety?
- Ninety is pronounced /ˈnaɪn.ti/ (UK).
Words near ninety in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ninety (page history and authors); ninety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नव्वद (Marathi) (page history and authors); ninety (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); નેવુ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ନବେ (Odia) (page history and authors); নব্বৈ (Assamese) (page history and authors); नब्बे (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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