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nine

[ nahyn ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, eight plus one.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. a baseball team.
  5. a playing card with nine pips.
  6. the Nine, the Muses.


adjective

  1. amounting to nine in number.

nine

/ naɪn /

noun

  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and eight See also number
  2. a numeral, 9, IX, etc, representing this number
  3. something representing, represented by, or consisting of nine units, such as a playing card with nine symbols on it
  4. Alsonine o'clock nine hours after noon or midnight

    the play starts at nine

  5. dressed to the nines or dressed up to the nines informal.
    elaborately dressed
  6. 999
    (in Britain) the telephone number of the emergency services
  7. nine to five
    normal office hours

    a nine-to-five job

    he works nine to five

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determiner

    1. amounting to nine

      nine days

    2. ( as pronoun )

      nine of the ten are ready

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nine1

before 900; Middle English; Old English nigan, nigon, cognate with Dutch negen, akin to German neun, Old Norse nīu, Gothic niun, Latin novem, Greek ennéa, Sanskrit náva
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nine1

Old English nigon; related to Gothic niun, Latin novem
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. dressed to the nines, looking one's best; dressed smartly, splendidly, etc.:

    All the girls were dressed to the nines for the party.

More idioms and phrases containing nine

see dressed to kill (to the nines) ; on cloud nine ; possession is nine points of the law ; whole nine yards .
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Example Sentences

This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

Nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.

In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

Dinner occurred in the middle of the day, and about nine in the evening was an informal but copious supper.

He had been wont to do this on other occasions, because the enemy with nine ships was within sight of the fort.

His holy book says: There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men.

A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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