ninesome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ninesome (plural ninesomes)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
group of nine