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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
/ ²Ô²¹Éª²Ô /
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
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of nine1
51³Ô¹Ï 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
A 9-year-old boy in Kentucky was swept away by flood waters on Friday, one of at least nine people to die in a series of dramatic storms that continue to pummel the US.
"Rangers were defensively really poor, the goalkeeper doesn't inspire confidence, and your number nine isn't putting the ball in the back of the net," he said.
There is no limit to the ambitions of Emery - a master of knockout football who has won 10 trophies as a manager, nine of them in cups.
“Cowboy Bebop†debuted on Adult Swim on an unsuspecting Sunday in September 2001, nine days before one Tuesday would shatter our sense of security forever: 9/11.
He's now thriving in a central role, playing as a false nine, more involved in the build-up, getting more touches, more shots, more goals.
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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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