nine
- adjective
- /naɪn/
- The movie was released exactly nine weeks ago.
So you can see this is a nine month bump.
- So you can see this is a nine month bump.
- That's more money than the next nine biggest countries combined.
- TV show, you know, nine months, maybe fewer.
- Fish Trades had nine fights as an amateur there.
- Now it's been nine months and it's still just as bad.
- When you look at Pacific Islanders, it's a nine to one ratio.
- I was with them for nine years in my career.
- So all plants contain all nine essential amino acids.
- Oh, and she's at a bar nine months pregnant.
- So they had been working on it for, as we mentioned, nine years at that point.
- But sperm meets egg and then typically nine months later we have a human baby.
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Oh, and she's at a bar nine months pregnant.
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She's a maybe like a nine week old munchkin Kitty.
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I got to go with a nine link.
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So you can see this is a nine month bump.
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But this is an absolutely perfect nine day old D shell.
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Nobody is OK with aborting a, a nine month old baby.
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The teacher asked the students to count to nine on their fingers.
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He celebrated his nine birthday with a big cake and lots of friends.
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- NSFW
A whip with nine knotted cords used to beat people as punishment, often on ships or in prisons
A major European war from 1689 to 1697 between France and a group of other countries
A small animal with nine bands of hard armor that lives in parts of North and South America
- Offensive
A sexual position in which two people use their mouths on each other at the same time
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nine as an adjective is the same old number word found across Europe, like German neun or Spanish nueve, and it describes something that is 'one more than eight'.