ninth

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position

   The team scored in the ninth inning.

2. 2
   noun

   one part in nine equal parts

   The team scored in the ninth inning.

3. 3
   noun

   position nine in a countable series of things

   going into the ninth they were a run ahead

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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