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# ninety

«ninety» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 90** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (ninety); noun (the nineties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ninety is the number 90. It is nine tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#m1)

2) «The nineties» are the numbers or ages from 90 to 99, or the years of a century ending in 90 to 99. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#m2)

3) A ninety-degree angle is a right angle, a square corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a count written in words; a right angle is 90 degrees; 90 minutes is an hour and a half. In everyday life: prices, ages, temperatures, a 90-minute football (soccer) match. In stories: «going ninety miles an hour» means going very fast.

### examples

- The book has ninety pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x1)
- Ninety people came to the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x2)
- He paid ninety cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x3)
- A right angle measures ninety degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x4)
- A soccer match lasts ninety minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x5)
- My great-grandma is ninety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x6)
- Ninety plus ten is a hundred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x7)
- The corner of a book is a ninety-degree angle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x8)
- Who would have believed a woman past ninety could walk with such speed? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/#x9)

### note

A number written in words; read it as 90. Trap: do not confuse ninety (90) with nineteen (19). Spelling: ninety keeps the «e», but ninth drops it. A right angle = 90°. 90 minutes = 1 hour 30 minutes.

### In the corpora

- [devyanOsto means ninety; it is an odd one, not built as «nine» plus «-ty».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ninety» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninety/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.