Ninth
adj, noun, verb ·1 syllable ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The person or thing in the ninth position.
- 2 one part in nine equal parts wordnet
- 3 One of nine equal parts of a whole.
- 4 position nine in a countable series of things wordnet
- 5 The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
- 1 To lose a ninth.
"οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, should be translated “a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)”, “no tithing” (literally, “a ninth is not given”, “no ninth-ing”, if I may coin such a word)."
- 2 To divide by nine.
"THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing."
- 1 The ordinal form of the number nine. not-comparable
"Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary."
- 1 coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position wordnet
Example
More examples"The speech contest took place on the ninth of November."
Etymology
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine. Equivalent to nine + -th (ordinal suffix).
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