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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈnaɪn/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/naɪn/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(nīn)

nine /naɪn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]

a cardinal number, equal to eight plus one.
a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
a set of this many persons or things.
Sporta baseball team.

adj. [before a noun]

amounting to nine in number.

Idioms

Idioms dressed to the nines, dressed very well or splendidly, esp. in formal clothing.

nine (nīn),USA pronunciation n.

a cardinal number, eight plus one.
a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
a set of this many persons or things.
Sporta baseball team.
Gamesa playing card with nine pips.
Idioms dressed to the nines, looking one's best;
dressed smartly, splendidly, etc.:All the girls were dressed to the nines for the party.
Mythology the Nine, the Muses.

adj.

amounting to nine in number.

bef. 900; Middle English; Old English nigan, nigon, cognate with Dutch negen, akin to German neun, Old Norse nīu, Gothic niun, Latin novem, Greek ennéa, Sanskrit náva

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

nine /naɪn/ n

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and eight
a numeral, 9, IX, etc, representing this number
something representing, represented by, or consisting of nine units, such as a playing card with nine symbols on it
Also: nine o'clock nine hours after noon or midnight: the play starts at nine
dressed to the nines, dressed up to the nines ⇒ informal elaborately dressed
999 ⇒ (in Britain) the telephone number of the emergency services
nine to five ⇒ normal office hours: he works nine to five, a nine-to-five job

determiner

- amounting to nine: nine days
- (as pronoun): nine of the ten are ready

Etymology: Old English nigon; related to Gothic niun, Latin novem

'nine' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

abundance - Agate - Allegri - angel - archon - article - Bach - baseball - Bruckner - cat - cat-o'-nine-tails - Churchill - cloud - Davies - eighteen - fingered - firkin - Harrison - heptane - Hogan - Hydra - Irrawaddy - Jones - kingpin - Malaya - mandarin - missing - Muse - Navaratri - Navratilova - nine-days wonder - nine-eleven - ninefold - nineteen - ninety - ninth - nonagon - nonet - noughts and crosses - November - novena - of - Panufnik - Pierides - Piggott - Player - power - Seles - seven-seven - algorism

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Collocations: the number nine, nine plus [two] [equals, is, makes] [11], nine [minus, take away] [one] [equals] [eight], more...

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