--- title: N — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 12 description: The 369 words of the English dictionary under N, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / N # N — The English dictionary · page 12 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* The time in the evening when it becomes dark; dusk.[↗](../../nightfall/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We must reach the cabin before nightfall.[↗](../../nightfall/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · At nightfall, the owls began to hoot.[↗](../../nightfall/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The village lights came on at nightfall.[↗](../../nightfall/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · By nightfall the hikers were tired.[↗](../../nightfall/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bats come out at nightfall.[↗](../../nightfall/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In winter, nightfall comes early.[↗](../../nightfall/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood.[↗](../../nightfall/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nightie** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) A nightdress: a loose dress worn in bed, mostly by girls and women.[↗](../../nightie/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I put on my nightie and brushed my teeth.[↗](../../nightie/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She came downstairs in her nightie.[↗](../../nightie/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran gave me a pink nightie with stars on it.[↗](../../nightie/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Pack your nightie for the sleepover.[↗](../../nightie/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My nightie is too long; I trip on it.[↗](../../nightie/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum ran into the garden in her nightie when the alarm went off.[↗](../../nightie/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · So they were told they could dance, but they must put on their nighties first.[↗](../../nightie/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nightingale** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A nightingale is a small brown bird famous for its beautiful, loud, varied song, which it often sings at night as well as in the day.[↗](../../nightingale/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) Florence Nightingale was an English nurse in Victorian times who made hospitals cleaner and helped start modern nursing; she was called «the Lady with the Lamp».[↗](../../nightingale/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A nightingale sang in the bushes all night.[↗](../../nightingale/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Nightingales are plain brown but sing beautifully.[↗](../../nightingale/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Florence Nightingale carried a lamp on her night rounds.[↗](../../nightingale/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Florence Nightingale used diagrams to show why soldiers were dying.[↗](../../nightingale/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The poet wrote an ode to a nightingale.[↗](../../nightingale/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Nightingales fly to Africa for the winter.[↗](../../nightingale/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Her singing voice is like a nightingale's.[↗](../../nightingale/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Then the Nightingale began to sing.[↗](../../nightingale/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **nightjar** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A brown, speckled bird that hunts moths at dusk and at night and makes a long, whirring, churring song.[↗](../../nightjar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It sleeps on the ground or along a branch in the day, hidden by its camouflage.[↗](../../nightjar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We heard a nightjar churring on the heath.[↗](../../nightjar/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A nightjar's feathers look just like dead leaves.[↗](../../nightjar/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nightjars catch moths in the dark.[↗](../../nightjar/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The nightjar sat so still we nearly stepped on it.[↗](../../nightjar/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In autumn the nightjars fly back to Africa.[↗](../../nightjar/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The ranger took us on a walk to listen for nightjars.[↗](../../nightjar/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nightly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Happening every night.[↗](../../nightly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Happening at night.[↗](../../nightly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our dog gets a nightly walk.[↗](../../nightly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma watches the nightly news.[↗](../../nightly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The owls hunt nightly in the woods.[↗](../../nightly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The show plays twice nightly at the theatre.[↗](../../nightly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Brush your teeth nightly before bed.[↗](../../nightly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The hotel charges $80 nightly.[↗](../../nightly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They were coming from their nightly carousal.[↗](../../nightly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **nightmare** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A frightening or very upsetting dream.[↗](../../nightmare/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A very difficult or unpleasant situation or experience.[↗](../../nightmare/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I had a nightmare about a giant spider.[↗](../../nightmare/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She woke up screaming from a nightmare.[↗](../../nightmare/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Scary films give me nightmares.[↗](../../nightmare/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Getting home in the snow was a nightmare.[↗](../../nightmare/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad said the traffic was a total nightmare.[↗](../../nightmare/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · After a nightmare, a hug from Mum helps.[↗](../../nightmare/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Nightmares can feel real, but they are only dreams.[↗](../../nightmare/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Losing the tickets would be a nightmare\![↗](../../nightmare/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He thought he had a nightmare.[↗](../../nightmare/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **nightshade** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A family of plants that includes some very poisonous ones, such as deadly nightshade, which has shiny black berries.[↗](../../nightshade/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The nightshade family also includes foods like potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and aubergines.[↗](../../nightshade/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Deadly nightshade has shiny black berries that are very poisonous.[↗](../../nightshade/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Never eat berries you find in the wild.[↗](../../nightshade/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Potatoes and tomatoes belong to the nightshade family.[↗](../../nightshade/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the witch brewed a potion with nightshade.[↗](../../nightshade/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Woody nightshade has purple flowers and red berries.[↗](../../nightshade/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · If someone eats a wild berry, tell an adult and get help at once.[↗](../../nightshade/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nihilism** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) The belief that nothing really matters or has meaning, and that life has no purpose.[↗](../../nihilism/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal, history) The idea that all rules, laws and traditions should be rejected or destroyed.[↗](../../nihilism/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Nihilism is the idea that life has no meaning.[↗](../../nihilism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The villain in the story shows nihilism: he thinks nothing matters.[↗](../../nihilism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our philosophy club talked about nihilism and whether kindness matters.[↗](../../nihilism/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Christians believe life has meaning because God made people, so they disagree with nihilism.[↗](../../nihilism/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some teenagers joke about nihilism when they are bored.[↗](../../nihilism/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The writer Nietzsche wrote a lot about nihilism.[↗](../../nihilism/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **nil** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nil means nothing or zero.[↗](../../nil/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, sport) Nil is used for zero in match scores: "two–nil".[↗](../../nil/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We won the match three–nil.[↗](../../nil/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The game ended nil–nil.[↗](../../nil/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The chance of snow in summer here is nil.[↗](../../nil/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The patient is nil by mouth before the operation.[↗](../../nil/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our savings were nil after buying the bike.[↗](../../nil/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His interest in maths was nil until he met Mr Lee.[↗](../../nil/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They called it Mishnali, and it )ns hinided down to liioin by I'nil tradition from Alualiaiii."[↗](../../nil/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../nil/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The numeral system of tlie Sefer Tetzirah, as I have ex- plained, may be considered to consist of live symbols, \|, \|\|, III, nil, 0, the cipher being the fifth symbol.[↗](../../nil/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../nil/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **nimble** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Able to move quickly, easily and lightly.[↗](../../nimble/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Quick and clever in thinking, as in "a nimble mind".[↗](../../nimble/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The nimble goat climbed the steep rocks.[↗](../../nimble/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick.[↗](../../nimble/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She has nimble fingers for playing the piano.[↗](../../nimble/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The nimble goalkeeper leapt to save the ball.[↗](../../nimble/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A squirrel is nimble on the thin branches.[↗](../../nimble/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The fox's nimble mind found a way out of the trap.[↗](../../nimble/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Gymnasts must be strong and nimble.[↗](../../nimble/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I am not a swift runner, and you are nimble as a deer.[↗](../../nimble/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **nimbly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nimbly means quickly and lightly, with easy, quick movements: the cat ran nimbly up the tree.[↗](../../nimbly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The monkey climbed nimbly.[↗](../../nimbly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hare hopped nimbly onto the platform.[↗](../../nimbly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **nine** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nine is the number 9.[↗](../../nine/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It comes after eight and before ten.[↗](../../nine/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A nine is the digit 9, or a playing card or score of nine.[↗](../../nine/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Nine o'clock» or «nine» is a time of day.[↗](../../nine/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She has nine apples.[↗](../../nine/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Nine birds sat on a fence.[↗](../../nine/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He scored nine points.[↗](../../nine/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Nine children are in the group.[↗](../../nine/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · School starts at nine.[↗](../../nine/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A baseball team has nine players on the field.[↗](../../nine/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Three times three is nine.[↗](../../nine/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · My little brother is nine years old.[↗](../../nine/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · People say a cat has nine lives.[↗](../../nine/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.[↗](../../nine/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.[↗](../../nine/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.5.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.[↗](../../nine/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.5.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.[↗](../../nine/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.3.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.[↗](../../nine/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.[↗](../../nine/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.7.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nine/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **ninepence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An old British coin worth nine pence, used before our money was changed to decimal coins; an amount of money, not a count of coins.[↗](../../ninepence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The teas cost ninepence each.[↗](../../ninepence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She paid a ninepence for the loaf.[↗](../../ninepence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nine pence is also written as ninepence.[↗](../../ninepence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **ninepins** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A game in which a ball is rolled at nine wooden pins set up in a diamond shape, to knock them down.[↗](../../ninepins/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We played ninepins at the fair and knocked down six pins.[↗](../../ninepins/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The men set up nine pins and began to play.[↗](../../ninepins/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ninepins is like skittles.[↗](../../ninepins/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **nineteen** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nineteen is the number 19.[↗](../../nineteen/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is ten and nine, one less than twenty.[↗](../../nineteen/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Nineteen can be an age: a person who is nineteen is in their late teens.[↗](../../nineteen/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There are nineteen students in the class.[↗](../../nineteen/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He read nineteen pages.[↗](../../nineteen/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nineteen cars are in the lot.[↗](../../nineteen/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Nineteen plus one is twenty.[↗](../../nineteen/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin is nineteen and goes to college.[↗](../../nineteen/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bus number nineteen goes to the beach.[↗](../../nineteen/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Nineteen is a prime number.[↗](../../nineteen/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She talked nineteen to the dozen all the way home.[↗](../../nineteen/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · She was now seventeen, and he nineteen years old.[↗](../../nineteen/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.[↗](../../nineteen/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.11.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteen/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · and Iron, and Migdal-el, and Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.[↗](../../nineteen/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.19.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteen/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.[↗](../../nineteen/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.2.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteen/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **nineteenth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Nineteenth tells the place number 19 in order, like the nineteenth runner to finish.[↗](../../nineteenth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A nineteenth is one of nineteen equal parts of something (1/19).[↗](../../nineteenth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «The nineteenth century» is the hundred years we call the 1800s.[↗](../../nineteenth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She was the nineteenth in line.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · On the nineteenth page there is a map.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He finished nineteenth in the race.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They live on the nineteenth floor.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Steam trains spread in the nineteenth century.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Each pupil got one nineteenth of the cake.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Today is her nineteenth birthday.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The nineteenth question was the hardest.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It has been preserved in no less than five versions (or six, including Macpherson's "Darthula") ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Nineteenth Path is the Intelligence of all the activities of the spiritual beings, and is so called because of the affluence diffused by it from the most high blessing and most exalted sublime glory.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../nineteenth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The Nineteenth Path is the Intelligence of all the activities of the spiritual beings, and is so called because of the aflluence diffused by it from the most high blessing and most exalted sublime glory.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../nineteenth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel; (Writings 1CH.24.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteenth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · For the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteenth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.[↗](../../nineteenth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.25.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../nineteenth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **ninety** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Ninety is the number 90.[↗](../../ninety/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is nine tens.[↗](../../ninety/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «The nineties» are the numbers or ages from 90 to 99, or the years of a century ending in 90 to 99.[↗](../../ninety/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A ninety-degree angle is a right angle, a square corner.[↗](../../ninety/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The book has ninety pages.[↗](../../ninety/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ninety people came to the fair.[↗](../../ninety/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He paid ninety cents.[↗](../../ninety/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A right angle measures ninety degrees.[↗](../../ninety/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A soccer match lasts ninety minutes.[↗](../../ninety/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My great-grandma is ninety.[↗](../../ninety/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Ninety plus ten is a hundred.[↗](../../ninety/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The corner of a book is a ninety-degree angle.[↗](../../ninety/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Who would have believed a woman past ninety could walk with such speed?[↗](../../ninety/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.[↗](../../ninety/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.5.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.[↗](../../ninety/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.5.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begot sons and daughters.[↗](../../ninety/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.5.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.[↗](../../ninety/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.[↗](../../ninety/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.7.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.[↗](../../ninety/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninety/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **ninja** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A secret fighter or spy in old Japan, trained in fighting, sneaking and disguises.[↗](../../ninja/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A person who is very skilled at something: «a spelling ninja».[↗](../../ninja/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ninja crept silently across the rooftop.[↗](../../ninja/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I sneaked downstairs like a ninja to get a snack.[↗](../../ninja/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ninjas were real spies in old Japan.[↗](../../ninja/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · You solved that puzzle so fast — you're a maths ninja\![↗](../../ninja/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cartoon about ninja turtles is very old but still popular.[↗](../../ninja/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother does ninja moves on the trampoline.[↗](../../ninja/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **ninny** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A silly person who does not think clearly; a fool.[↗](../../ninny/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't be a ninny, the sea is cold.[↗](../../ninny/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The ninny believed every word the fox said.[↗](../../ninny/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **ninth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Ninth tells the place number 9 in order.[↗](../../ninth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A ninth is also one of nine equal parts of something, 1/9.[↗](../../ninth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In music, a ninth is a gap of nine notes.[↗](../../ninth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She is ninth in the line.[↗](../../ninth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A ninth of the pizza is left.[↗](../../ninth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He finished ninth.[↗](../../ninth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Two ninths of the class are boys.[↗](../../ninth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister is in ninth grade.[↗](../../ninth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Nine ninths make one whole.[↗](../../ninth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It was his ninth birthday party.[↗](../../ninth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The ninth planet used to be Pluto, but now it is called a dwarf planet.[↗](../../ninth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Daphnephoria was celebrated at Thebes in honour of Apollo every ninth year.[↗](../../ninth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin: (Torah NUM.7.60, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store.[↗](../../ninth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.25.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.[↗](../../ninth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.23.32, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth; (Writings 1CH.12.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah; (Writings 1CH.24.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ninth/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) … [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/11/) **12** [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/13/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/20/) - ← previous: [page 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/page/11/) - next →: [page 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