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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ninth /naɪnθ/USA pronunciation adj. - next after the eighth.
n. [countable] - a ninth part, esp. of one;
1/9. - the ninth number of a series;
the one counted as the number nine.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ninth (nīnth),USA pronunciation adj. - next after the eighth;
being the ordinal number for nine. - being one of nine equal parts.
n. - a ninth part, esp. of one (1⁄9).
- the ninth member of a series.
- [Music.]
- a tone distant from another tone by an interval of an octave and a second.
- the interval between such tones.
- harmonic combination of such tones.
adv. - in the ninth place.
- bef. 900; Middle English ninthe (see nine, -th2), replacing Middle English niend (Old English nigend), neogethe, nigethe (Old English nigotha); akin to Old Saxon nigutho, Old Norse nīundi, Gothic niunda
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