ninth B2 Topic:Numbers & Quantity US /ˈnaɪnθ/ UK /naɪnθ/ See IPA manual Freq #7842 Meanings 1 adj coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position The team scored in the ninth inning. 2 noun one part in nine equal parts The team scored in the ninth inning. 3 noun position nine in a countable series of things going into the ninth they were a run ahead Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · one part in nine equal parts one-ninth Word family Derived forms eighty-ninthfifty-ninthforty-ninthninety-ninthninth-inningone-ninthseventy-ninthsixty-ninththirty-ninthtwenty-ninth 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). Topics Numbers & Quantity External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # ninth **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** adj, noun **IPA (US):** /ˈnaɪnθ/ **IPA (UK):** /naɪnθ/ **Frequency rank:** 7842 ## Meanings 1. coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position 2. one part in nine equal parts 3. position nine in a countable series of things ## Examples - The team scored in the ninth inning. - The team scored in the ninth inning. - going into the ninth they were a run ahead ## Synonyms - one-ninth ## Derived Forms - eighty-ninth - fifty-ninth - forty-ninth - ninety-ninth - ninth-inning - one-ninth - seventy-ninth - sixty-ninth - thirty-ninth - twenty-ninth ## 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). ## Topics - Numbers & Quantity markdown