nine
/naɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
Describing a group or set with nine elements.
noun
A playing card with nine pips.
noun
A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
noun
A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.), counting the number of digits nine in a percentage.
noun
A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?"
- "Of course, for a number to have a biography, we need to assume that none of its digits are present more than nine times."
- "Tamunowari Tetenta, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, says he has attempted to register for his NIN on nine different occasions in Port Harcourt, a city southeast of Lagos."
- "A cat has nine lives."
- "Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number."
- "Hiro risks turning on a small flashlight, uses it to rummage around the yatcht, picking up valuable stuff: a few bottles of (presumably) drinkable water, some food, extra ammunition for his nine."
Etymology
PIE word *h₁néwn̥ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ Proto-Germanic *newunt Proto-Germanic *newun Proto-West Germanic *neun Proto-West Germanic *nigun Old English nigon Middle English nyn English nine From Middle English nyn, nyne, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नव (náva, “nine”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /naɪn/
- British English: /naɪn/
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Phrases
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
all sixes and nines
a stitch in time saves nine
back nine
bent as a nine-bob note
cast out nines
cat-o-nine
cat-o'-nine