a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
"each club played six home games with teams in its own division"
The digit or figure 9.
"The teacher wrote a perfect nine on my math test."
In plain English: Nine is the number that comes right after eight and before ten.
"There are nine days left until the weekend begins."
Usage: Use "nine" as a noun to refer to the specific numeral 9 when discussing numbers, dates, or codes. Do not use it to describe a quantity of nine items, which requires the phrase "nine things."
A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
"She counted exactly nine apples on the table before putting them in her basket."
A surname.
"When I met Mr. Nine at the conference, he told me his family has been farming in that valley for three generations under the name Nine."
The word nine comes from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "nine." It traveled into English through Old English and Middle English without changing its original numerical meaning.