Meanings
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1
adj
coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position
The team scored in the ninth inning.
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2
noun
one part in nine equal parts
The team scored in the ninth inning.
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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).