ninth grade
English
Noun
ninth grade (plural ninth grades)
- (US, education) The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.
- 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 8 June 2019:
- Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.
Synonyms
- grade nine, grade 9 (Canada, Philippines)
- freshman (US)
- 3rd year, third year, junior (Philippines)
Derived terms
Translations
period in school