ninth

About 7.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective The ordinal form of the number nine.
2. noun The person or thing in the ninth position.
3. noun One of nine equal parts of a whole.
4. noun The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
5. verb To lose a ninth.
6. verb To divide by nine.

Similar words

one-ninth ordinal nine seventh eighth eleventh ninthly eighteenth fiftieth tenth

Often followed by

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Word family

9th ninths