Word.ws English Dictionary

K9

Syllables: K·9UK/ˈkeɪnaɪn/US/ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/

K9 noun: a trained police dog.

Noun

K9 (plural K9s)

  1. A trained police dog.
    • Police working dogs (K9s) often have extremely close bonds with their handlers.2003, Nicholas H. Dodman, If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People, page 248
    • Originally a K9 dog for the police department, Captain was asked to resign for unknown reasons.2003, Trevor J. Orsinger, The Firefighter's Best Friend: Lives and Legends of Chicago Firehouse Dogs, page 90

K9 meaning in Bengali

K9 in Bengali

একটি প্রশিক্ষিত পুলিশ কুকুর

Examples of K9 in a sentence

  • Apollo, part of the New York Police Department K9 Search and Rescue team was on the scene of the disaster just 15 minutes after the disaster2005, Priya Kapoor, Nandita Jaishankar, VIPs: Very Important Pets, page 71:
  • The Saitama Prefectural Police Department, for example, had no K9 units of its own, and relied on contract dogs exclusively.2006, Asa Nonami, Juliet Winters Carpenter, The Hunter: A Detective Takako Otomichi Mystery, page 134:

Forms of K9

pluralK9s
alternative formK-9

Origin of K9

Pseudo-acronym of canine, by phonetic similarity of the letter and number names with the two syllables of canine.

Words that rhyme with K9

Questions about K9

What does K9 mean?
K9 means a trained police dog.
What is K9 in Bengali?
K9 in Bengali is একটি প্রশিক্ষিত পুলিশ কুকুর. See K9 meaning in Bengali.
How do you use K9 in a sentence?
Apollo, part of the New York Police Department K9 Search and Rescue team was on the scene of the disaster just 15 minutes after the disaster
What part of speech is K9?
K9 is a noun.
How do you pronounce K9?
K9 is pronounced /ˈkeɪnaɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of K9?
The plural of K9 is K9s.

Words near K9 in the dictionary

  1. K1
  2. k1ll
  3. K2
  4. K3G
  5. k8s
  6. K9
  7. K9s
  8. ka
  9. Ka Lae
  10. ka pai
  11. Ka'aba

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: K9 (page history and authors); K9 (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-au-canine.ogg.

Cite this entry: “K9.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/k9. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.