ninth

[ nahynth ]

adjective

1. next after the eighth; being the ordinal number for nine.
2. being one of nine equal parts.

noun

1. a ninth part, especially of one (1/9).
2. the ninth member of a series.
3. Music.
   1. a tone distant from another tone by an interval of an octave and a second.
   2. the interval between such tones.
   3. harmonic combination of such tones.

adverb

1. in the ninth place.

ninth

/ naɪnθ /

adjective

1. usually prenominal
   1. coming after the eighth in counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of nine. Often written: 9th
   2. ( as noun )

      he came on the ninth

      ninth in line

noun

1. 1. one of nine equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, measurement, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      a ninth part

2. the fraction equal to one divided by nine ( 1 9 )
3. music
   1. an interval of one octave plus a second
   2. one of two notes constituting such an interval
   3. See ninth chord

adverb

1. Alsoninthly after the eighth person, position, event, etc

sentence connector

1. Alsoninthly as the ninth point: linking what follows to the previous statement

Other Words From

• ninthly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of ninth¹

before 900; Middle English ninthe ( nine, -th ² ), replacing Middle English niend ( Old English nigend ), neogethe, nigethe ( Old English nigotha ); akin to Old Saxon nigutho, Old Norse nīundi, Gothic niunda

Word History and Origins

Origin of ninth¹

Old English nigotha; related to Old High German niunto, Old Norse nīundi

Example Sentences

Ryser told the board that she once asked her daughter, now a ninth-grader, if the girl felt safe at school.

From Washington Post

In 2019, the school de-tracked geometry, the math class most ninth-graders take.

From Washington Post

Wander Suero was perfect in the eighth, but Austin Voth surrendered a solo homer to Omar Narváez in the ninth.

From Washington Post

Eight Liberty players are north of 40 percent from deep, and a ninth, Rebecca Allen, is a skilled perimeter shooter whose shooting percentage is likely to revert to the mean in the coming games.

From FiveThirtyEight

That’s not a bad place to start, a road map for Martinez from the sixth through the ninth, with plenty of mix-and-match options.

From Washington Post

The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.

From The Daily Beast

That makes New York the ninth state to require such coverage.

From The Daily Beast

I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.

From The Daily Beast

Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.

From The Daily Beast

All of the objects are believed to have been buried between the mid-ninth and 10th centuries.

From The Daily Beast

He directed the Ninth Symphony, and played twice himself with orchestral accompaniments.

From Project Gutenberg

Methodius and Cyril, who were sent missionaries to the Sclavonians in the ninth century.

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Its most important compound is water, of which it forms one-ninth, the other eight-ninths consisting of oxygen.

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Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.

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The cathedral is one of the oldest in England, having been mainly built in the Ninth Century.

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