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nine
[ nahyn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- a baseball team.
- a playing card with nine pips.
- the Nine, the Muses.
adjective
- amounting to nine in number.
nine
/ Բɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and eight See also number
- a numeral, 9, IX, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of nine units, such as a playing card with nine symbols on it
- Alsonine o'clock nine hours after noon or midnight
the play starts at nine
- dressed to the nines or dressed up to the nines informal.elaborately dressed
- 999(in Britain) the telephone number of the emergency services
- nine to fivenormal office hours
a nine-to-five job
he works nine to five
determiner
- amounting to nine
nine days
- ( as pronoun )
nine of the ten are ready
Word History and Origins
Origin of nine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of nine1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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 .Example Sentences
Hush was found guilty of nine charges, Cox two, Sharoudi seven and Brown a total of six.
At the time, there had been seven suspected homicides reported in the first nine weeks of the year.
Sciver-Brunt, 32, replaces Heather Knight who spent nine years in the role.
The result of her research was a set of nine principles that organisers could commit to in order to make their events more inclusive for women.
Lee’s murder is one of nine cold cases that have been solved over the past year, the sheriff’s office said.
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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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