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nine-day wonders

nine-day wonders is the plural of nine-day wonder.

Meaning of nine-day wonder

Noun

nine-day wonder (plural nine-day wonders)

  1. (idiomatic) Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned.
    • […] I am content this vvinter to haue my doings read for a toye, that in ſommer they may be ready for traſh. It is not ſtraunge vvhen as the greateſt vvonder laſteth but nyne dayes, that a nevve vvorke ſhould not endure but three monethes.[[1578], Iohn Lylly [i.e., John Lyly], “To the Gentlemen Readers”, in Euphues. The Anatomy of Wyt. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC

Forms of nine-day wonders

alternative formnine day wonders
alternative formnine days' wonders

Questions about nine-day wonders

What is nine-day wonders the plural of?
Nine-day wonders is the plural of nine-day wonder.

Words near nine-day wonders in the dictionary

  1. nine-banded armadillos
  2. nine-darter
  3. nine-darters
  4. nine-dash line
  5. nine-day wonder
  6. nine-day wonders
  7. nine-eyes
  8. nine-hundredth
  9. nine-killer
  10. nine-killers
  11. nine-nine-nine

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