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单词 ninefold
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ninefold

[ adjective nahyn-fohld; adverb nahyn-fohld ]
/ adjective ˈnaɪnˌfoʊld; adverb ˈnaɪnˈfoʊld /

adjective

nine times as great or as much.
having nine elements or parts.

adverb

in a ninefold manner or measure; to or by nine times as much: to increase one's income ninefold.

Origin of ninefold

before 1000; nine + -fold; compare Old English nigonfeald in same sense (not attested in ME)

Words nearby ninefold

nine ball, nine-banded armadillo, ninebark, nine days' wonder, nine-eleven, ninefold, ninepence, ninepenny, ninepins, nine plus two array, nine plus zero array
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Example sentences from the Web for ninefold

  • Draw now the threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands, And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands.

    A Song of the English|Rudyard Kipling
  • It may not be; the unlovely pool locks them in her gloomy wave, and Styx pours her ninefold barrier between.

    The Aeneid of Virgil|Virgil
  • And I praised her ninefold, and could have gone on for an hour.

    Dariel|R. D. Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for ninefold

ninefold
/ (ˈnaɪnˌfəʊld) /

adjective

equal to or having nine times as many or as much
composed of nine parts

adverb

by or up to nine times as many or as much
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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