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Definition of Ninety-fifth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of ninety-five in counting order.
Definition of Ninety-fifth
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number ninety-five, describing a person or thing in position number 95 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of ninety-five equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninety-fifth
Literary usage of Ninety-fifth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"... First Kansas volunteers, consisting of a detachment of infantry, numbering
seventy men, detailed from the First Kansas infantry, ninety-fifth Illinois, ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1911)
"Thk ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of Major General George Gordon Meade,
Commander of the Army of the Potomac from ..."
3. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"ON the 19th of August, 1862, the Ninety-Fifth Regiment was mustered into the ...
The Ninety-Fifth had never been in line of battle until the night they were ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"One of the ninety-fifth, falling over a howitzer, stumbled against a ... The gunner
had bent our man almost double, when some of the ninety-fifth ran up and ..."
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