ninth
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- adjective
- /naɪnθ/
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noveno
- She finished in ninth place in the race, just missing the top eight.
- ninth grade
- ninth-grade students
- ninth grader
So if we're talking to our wife and she says you're not going to be home for dinner again tonight for the ninth night in a row, that you're going to stay late at work, OK?
- So if we're talking to our wife and she says you're not going to be home for dinner again tonight for the ninth night in a row, that you're going to stay late at work, OK?
Examples
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Carmen is 15 years old and attends ninth grade at her neighborhood school.
Academic text (2013) -
You know my 21st birthday is the ninth, three weeks, right?
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Best things in life usually arrive ninth, right?
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I knew this in ninth grade.
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-This is the ninth possibility.
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My son was supposed to repeat the ninth grade for the third time this year....
Academic text (1991) -
And when he left here in the ninth grade, he was reading like a champ.
Fiction book (1992) -
The research involved two classes of ninth-grade English students in a New Jersey public co-educational high school.
Academic text (2013) -
There were 860 students in the ninth grade, and from this, 218 were randomly selected.
Academic text (1990) -
Evan was a 15-year-old ninth-grade Caucasian male identified as learning disabled and diagnosed with ADHD.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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Coming after eight and before ten in order
Compounds
- Informal
10
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The last part of the final inning in baseball when the home team bats, a final chance to win
- Specialized
A brain nerve that helps you swallow, taste the back of the tongue, and move throat muscles
A major Jewish fast day when people mourn the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem
A major Jewish day when people do not eat or drink to remember when the temples in Jerusalem were destroyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ninth is formed from nine and the ending -th, which shows order or place. So when something is ninth it is the 'number nine' in order or position.