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Answer for the clue "Notable anniversary ", 9 letters:
ninetieth
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Word definitions for ninetieth in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of ninety in counting order [syn: 90th ] n. position 90 in a countable series of things
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., nyntithe , from ninety + -th (1); a replacement or modification of Old English nigenteoþan .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ninetieth \Nine"ti*eth\, n. The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything. The next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number ninety. n. 1 The person or thing in the ninetieth position. 2 One of ninety equal parts of a whole.
Usage examples of ninetieth.
I cover the East Side, from Eightieth Street to Ninetieth, and from Lexington to Madison.
Given an abstract reasoning subtest in the ninetieth percentile and spotty school attendance that weakened his knowledge base, I figured it for an underestimate.
After the eightieth or ninetieth time, and after the cable guy has spent a while talking about the seemingly paradoxical notion of slack control and extolling the sophistication of his ship's slack control systems and his computer's slack numerical-simulation software, you begin to understand that slack plays as pivotal a role in a cable lay as, say, thrust does in a moon mission.