ninesome

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    Cardinal: nine
    Ordinal: ninth
    Abbreviated ordinal: 9th
    Latinate ordinal: nonary
    Adverbial: nine times
    Multiplier: ninefold
    Latinate multiplier: nonuple
    Germanic collective: ninesome
    Collective of n parts: nonuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad
    Greek collective prefix: ennea-
    Latinate collective prefix: nona-
    Fractional: ninth
    Elemental: nonuplet
    Number of musicians: nonet
    Number of years: novennium

Etymology

From nine +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nīn'səm, IPA(key): /ˈnaɪnsəm/
  • Rhymes: -aɪnsəm
  • Hyphenation: nine‧some

Noun

ninesome (plural ninesomes)

  1. A group of nine persons or things.
    • 1954, The Folk Dancer, volumes 1-3, page 34:
      In the ninesome reel the dance is fully organized; i.e. there is no arbitrary change of partner, and quite sophisticated dance-figures occur.
    • 1958 October 13, LIFE‎[1]:
      As they stood before a staid cast-iron gate across the street from where they work, they made as toothsome a ninesome as could ever be glimpsed anywhere.
    • 2008, Stephen Clarkson, Does North America Exist?: Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11, page 441:
      On that day, representatives from each country's business community presented their fifty-one detailed recommendations to an impressive trinational ninesome.

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