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ninth grades

ninth grades is the plural of ninth grade.

Meaning of ninth grade

Noun

ninth grade (plural ninth grades)

  1. (US) The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.
    • Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019
    Synonyms:
    grade nine, grade 9, freshman, 3rd year, third year, junior

Questions about ninth grades

What is ninth grades the plural of?
Ninth grades is the plural of ninth grade.

Words near ninth grades in the dictionary

  1. ninth chords
  2. ninth cranial nerve
  3. ninth grade
  4. ninth grader
  5. ninth graders
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  7. Ninth Month
  8. ninth-inning
  9. ninthed
  10. ninthing
  11. ninthly

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