The number 9
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A nine-month prison sentenc
Oxford Essential Dictionary
nine
number
9
>> ninth pronoun, adjective, adverb 9th
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nine
nine /naɪn/ BrE AmE number
[Language: Old English; Origin: nigon]
1. the number 9:
He’s only been in this job for nine months.
We open at nine (=nine o'clock).
Kay was taught by her mother till she was nine (=nine years old).
2. nine times out of ten almost always:
Nine times out of ten we can solve the problem over the phone.
3. a nine days’ wonder a thing or event that makes people very excited for a short time
4. have nine lives to make lucky escapes from dangerous situations
⇨ dressed up to the nines at ↑dressed(4), ⇨ be on cloud nine at ↑cloud1(5)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
nine
nine [nine nines] [naɪn] [naɪn] number
9 There are examples of how to use numbers at the entry for five.
more at dressed (up) to the nines at dressed, possession is nine points/tenths/parts of the law at possession
Idioms: have nine lives ▪ nine days' wonder ▪ nine times out of ten ▪ nine to five ▪ whole nine yards
Word Origin:
Old English nigon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch negen and German neun, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit nava, Latin novem, and Greek ennea.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
nine / naɪn / number
A1 the number 9:
The children go to bed at nine (o'clock).
a nine-month prison sentence
nine to five describing or relating to work that begins at nine o'clock in the morning and finishes at five, the hours worked in many offices from Monday to Friday:
a nine-to-five routine
She's tired of working nine to five.
Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
nine
[na͟ɪn]
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nines
1) NUM Nine is the number 9.
We still sighted nine yachts.
...nine hundred pounds.
2) PHRASE If you say that someone is dressed up to the nines or dressed to the nines, you mean that they are wearing very smart or elegant clothes. [INFORMAL]
nine times out of ten → see time
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary
nine
nine /ˈnaɪn/ noun, pl nines
1 [count] : the number 9
2 [count] : the ninth in a set or series
• The next card was the nine of diamonds.
• She wears a size nine.
3 [noncount] : nine o'clock
• “What time is it?” “It's nine.”
• He woke up at nine this morning.
• a nine-to-five job [=a job that you work during regular business hours usually in an office]
4 [count] : the first or last nine holes of an 18-hole golf course - usually singular
• She didn't play well on the front nine [=on holes 1 through 9], but she was one under par on the back nine. [=on holes 10 through 18]
on cloud nine
- see 1cloud
the whole nine yards
- see 2yard
to the nines : in a very fancy or impressive way
• He was dressed to the nines.
- nine adj
• It took us nine hours to get there.
- nine pronoun
• I would like nine (of them), please.
• Nine out of 10 [=90 percent of] doctors agree that this treatment works.