ninth
adjective
next after the eighth; being the ordinal number for nine.
ninths
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pluralof ninth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five ninths of the population live in towns.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
