name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
The digit or figure 9.
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noun
A playing card with nine pips.
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Topics: card-games, games
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noun
A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
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Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
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Usage: plural-normally
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
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Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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num
A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
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num
Describing a group or set with nine elements.
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adjective satellite
denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
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Synonyms: 9, ix
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noun
one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
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Synonyms: nine-spot
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Broader terms: spot
noun
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: baseball club, ball club, club
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Broader terms: baseball team
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
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Synonyms: 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead
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Broader terms: digit, figure
History
PIE word *h1néwn̥ From Middle English nyn, nyne, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नव (náva, “nine”).
Across languages
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