"niner" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnaɪnə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-niner.wav [Southern-England] Forms: niners [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ) Etymology: (1): From nine + -er. Etymology templates: {{sense|1}} (1):, {{af|en|nine|-er}} nine + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} niner (plural niners)
  1. (informal) Something nine inches long. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Nine
    Sense id: en-niner-en-noun-31mrR3Zv Disambiguation of Nine: 49 51
  2. (in the singular) The digit 9 in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Tags: singular Categories (topical): English cardinal numbers, Nine
    Sense id: en-niner-en-noun-d0EBW99j Disambiguation of English cardinal numbers: 33 67 Disambiguation of Nine: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 27 73 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: forty-niner, sixty-niner, twenty-niner

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for niner meaning in English (2.8kB)

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