ninth chord

noun Music.

a chord formed by the superposition of four thirds.

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1945–50

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ninth chord

—n
	Often shortened to: ninth a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad with the seventh and ninth added above the root

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"Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again,
Sliding by semi-tones till I sink to a minor,—yes,
And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground,
Surveying a while the heights I rolled from into the deep;
Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found,
The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep."

-Robert Browning