Definition of nine

"nine" in the noun sense

1. nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead

the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one

2. baseball club, ball club, club, nine

a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

"each club played six home games with teams in its own division"

3. nine-spot, nine

one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face

"nine" in the adjective sense

1. nine, 9, ix

denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten

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Quotations for nine

A stitch in time saves nine. [ Proverb ]

Then take me on your knee, mother;
And listen, mother of mine.
A hundred fairies danced last night.
And the harpers they were nine. [ Mary Howitt ]

You will get the cat with nine tails. [ Proverb ]

You will bring a noble to nine-pence. [ Proverb ]

'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine;
And, after one hour more, 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. [ William Shakespeare ]

Seven may be company, but nine are confusion. [ Proverb ]

Grantham gruel, nine grats in a gallon of water. [ Proverb ]

A cat has nine lives, and a woman has nine cats' lives. [ Proverb ]

That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]

As wise as Waltham's calf, that ran nine miles to suck a bull. [ Proverb ]

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. [ Proverb ]

In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man. [ Bancroft ]

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. [ Greek Anthology ]

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. [ Horace ]

It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives Instead of one. [ Pilpay ]

A coquette is a woman who places her honor in a lottery: ninety-nine chances to one that she will lose it.

The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

nine in Scrabble®

The word nine is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nine:

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nine in Words With Friends™

The word nine is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters nine:

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Words containing the sequence nine

Word Growth involving nine

Shorter words in nine

in

Longer words containing nine

adenine adenines

alanine alanines phenylalanines

alanine phenylalanine diphenylalanine

alanine phenylalanine hyperphenylalaninemia hyperphenylalaninemias

alanine phenylalanine hyperphenylalaninemic

alanine phenylalanine phenylalanines

arginine arginines

asinine asininely

canine caninelike

canine caninely

canine canineness

canine canines postcanines

canine postcanine postcanines

chlorogenine

cinchonine cinchonines

creatinine xanthocreatinine

cyanine allocyanine allocyanines gallocyanines

cyanine allocyanine gallocyanine gallocyanines

cyanine cholocyanine

cyanine cyanines allocyanines gallocyanines

cyanine cyanines dicyanines

cyanine cyanines hemicyanines

cyanine cyanines indocyanines

cyanine cyanines kryptocyanines

cyanine cyanines merocyanines

cyanine cyanines neocyanines

cyanine cyanines phthalocyanines naphthalocyanines

cyanine cyanines streptocyanines

cyanine cyanines sulfoncyanines

cyanine cyanines sulphoncyanines

cyanine dicyanine dicyanines

cyanine hemicyanine hemicyanines

cyanine indocyanine indocyanines

cyanine isocyanine

cyanine kryptocyanine kryptocyanines

cyanine merocyanine merocyanines

cyanine neocyanine neocyanines

cyanine phthalocyanine metallophthalocyanine

cyanine phthalocyanine naphthalocyanine naphthalocyanines

cyanine phthalocyanine phthalocyanines naphthalocyanines

cyanine streptocyanine streptocyanines

cyanine sulfoncyanine sulfoncyanines

cyanine sulphoncyanine sulphoncyanines

cyanine urocyanine

daphoenine

delphinine delphinines

feminine femininely

feminine feminineness

feminine feminines

feminine masculofeminine

feminine nonfeminine

feminine overfeminine

feminine ultrafeminine

feminine underfeminine

feminine unfeminine

guanine guanines nitrosoguanines

guanine nitrosoguanine nitrosoguanines

hesperocyonine hesperocyonines

hydrocotarnine

iodothyronine iodothyronines triiodothyronines

iodothyronine triiodothyronine triiodothyronines

methionine

methylthionine methylthionines

mezzanine mezzanines

ninefold

ninepence ninepences

ninepennies

ninepenny

ninepin ninepins

nines adenines

nines alanines phenylalanines

nines arginines

nines boniness

nines bonniness

nines braininess

nines brawniness

nines brininess

nines canines postcanines

nines canniness uncanniness

nines cinchonines

nines corniness

nines cyanines allocyanines gallocyanines

nines cyanines dicyanines

nines cyanines hemicyanines

nines cyanines indocyanines

nines cyanines kryptocyanines

nines cyanines merocyanines

nines cyanines neocyanines

nines cyanines phthalocyanines naphthalocyanines

nines cyanines streptocyanines

nines cyanines sulfoncyanines

nines cyanines sulphoncyanines

nines delphinines

nines feminines

nines funniness

nines graininess

nines guanines nitrosoguanines

nines hesperocyonines

nines horniness thorniness

nines luniness

nines methylthionines

nines mezzanines

nines phoniness

nines puniness

nines quinines hydroquinines

nines scrawniness

nines selenines

nines shininess

nines skinniness

nines stoniness

nines sunniness

nines tawniness

nines thyronines iodothyronines triiodothyronines

nines tininess

nines tinniness

nines veininess

nines whininess

nines zaniness zaninesses

nineteen nineteenfold

nineteen nineteens

nineteen nineteenth nineteenthly

nineteen nineteenth nineteenths

nineties

ninetieth ninetieths

ninety ninetyfold

ninety ninetyish

ninety ninetysix

penninervation

penninerved

quinine hydroquinine hydroquinines

quinine quinines hydroquinines

selenine selenines

serotoninergic

seventynine

strychnine

thirtynine

threonine

uninebriated