Definitions for Nine

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Nine nine

Spelling: [nahyn]

IPA: /naɪn/

Nine is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Nine (einn).

Definitions for Nine

noun

1. a cardinal number, eight plus one.
2. a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. a baseball team.
5. a playing card with nine pips.
6. the Nine, the Muses.

Idioms

1. dressed to the nines, looking one's best; dressed smartly, splendidly, etc.:

adjective

1. amounting to nine in number.

Origin of Nine

before 900; Middle English; Old English nigan, nigon, cognate with Dutch negen, akin to German neun, Old Norse nīu, Gothic niun, Latin novem, Greek ennéa, Sanskrit náva

Examples for Nine

nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.

When, at last, he rose and picked up his cap; it was nine o'clock.

This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

After following Lake Barlee for nine miles, it turned to the southward.

It was after nine o'clock and there were few persons passing.

Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

By half-past nine on the morning of the 18th we had made a fair start.

Punctually at nine o'clock on Monday morning, George was at the office.

The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.