NINTH
What does "NINTH" mean?
Coming after the eighth in a sequence; the ordinal corresponding to the number nine.
Meanings
- Occupying position nine in a counted order. She lives on the ninth floor, just below the roof garden.
- One of nine equal parts of a whole. Each heir received a ninth of the estate.
- A musical interval spanning an octave plus a second. The jazz chord leaned on a tense, hovering ninth. technical
Did you know?
- When people say 'the Ninth', they usually mean one piece: Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony in 1824, breaking with tradition by adding a full chorus in the final movement.
Word origin
From Old English 'nigoþa', later regularized to 'ninth' by analogy with 'nine' (Old English 'nigon'), from Proto-Germanic 'newun', from Proto-Indo-European 'newn'.
Remember it
NINTH is NINE with its 'e' traded for 'th' - the same swap every ordinal makes when it grows a tail.
A little poem
Eight floors of strangers-
the ninth, your lit window, the
only one I climb.
haiku
Wordplay
- The musician kept reaching for that one chord. I said, 'You're on cloud nine.' He said, 'Close - it's a ninth.'
What it teaches
Order is just counting with direction - every 'ninth' only means something because of the eight that came before.
Quick facts
What does NINTH mean?
Coming after the eighth in a sequence; the ordinal corresponding to the number nine.
Is NINTH a valid word?
Yes — NINTH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NINTH?
NINTH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does NINTH come from?
From Old English 'nigoþa', later regularized to 'ninth' by analogy with 'nine' (Old English 'nigon'), from Proto-Germanic 'newun', from Proto-Indo-European 'newn'.
What can NINTH teach us?
Order is just counting with direction - every 'ninth' only means something because of the eight that came before.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.