Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Ninefold.
Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Ninefold.
Nine times greater or larger than.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Ninefold.
Nine times as great or as numerous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Ninefold.
Divided into nine equal segments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rare
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Ninefold.
Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 91, 92, 93, 94, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Nine beats per measure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-plural, rare
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The product of multiplying a given number by nine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: no-plural, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.
