Word.ws English Dictionary

ninths

/naɪnθs/

ninths is the plural of ninth.

Meaning of ninth

Noun

ninth (plural ninths)

  1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
  2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
  3. The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

See all 6 meanings of ninth

Phrases with ninths

Questions about ninths

What is ninths the plural of?
Ninths is the plural of ninth.
How do you pronounce ninths?
Ninths is pronounced /naɪnθs/.

Words near ninths in the dictionary

  1. Ninth Month
  2. ninth-inning
  3. ninthed
  4. ninthing
  5. ninthly
  6. ninths
  7. ninty
  8. Ninurta
  9. Ninus
  10. Ninyeunook
  11. nio

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ninths (page history and authors); ninth (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:

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