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9/11

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See also: 911, 9・11, and 9-1-1

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The World Trade Center was burning down with a large explosion on the south tower immediately after being struck.
The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175

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Etymology

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From the date September 11 written numerically with the notation used in the United States, in the month–day format.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌnaɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛvən

Proper noun

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9/11

  2. September 11, 2001; The date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States.
    Synonym: September eleventh
  4. (metonymic) The attacks themselves.
    Synonym: September eleventh
    • 2013 May 21, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 11 (comedy), spoken by Norm Macdonald:
      Hey, for the ninth consecutive year, Nick, JetBlue Airlines ranked first for satisfaction among all North American airlines. But, you know what ranked least in satisfaction? 9/11 Airlines. What a terrible name for an airline; it reminds me of that tragedy.
    • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 June 2021:
      What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
    • 2015 November 26, Claire Phipps, “New York Times slams 'outrageous' Donald Trump for mocking reporter's disability”, in The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 March 2025:
      Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial 9/11 claims
    • 2019 September 1, Claire Wardle, “Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder”, in Scientific American‎[3], archived from the original on 1 April 2025:
      As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.

Usage notes

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  • The pronunciation "nine-one-one" is usually used for the telephone number 911 instead of the date.

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Noun

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9/11 (plural 9/11s)

  1. An event comparable to the September 11 attacks.
    • 2005, Peter H. Merkl, The Rift Between America And Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle, Routledge, page 73:
      Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their 9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies.
    • 2006 April 14, “Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s”, in The Age‎[4], archived from the original on 24 January 2022:
      "I thought about ... the consequences for me saying I was a part of 9/11. I decided to just put my trust in God and tell the truth and time will tell," he said.
    • 2006, Michael Weissenstein, “Nations respond to their '9/11s'”, in International Institute for Strategic Studies‎[5], archived from the original on 8 April 2008:
      But experts who have studied these other "9/11s" say some offer important revelations, by comparison, about how America responded to its own.
    • 2007, David E. Long, Bernard Reich, Mark Gasiorowski, The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa:
      Jordanians referred to this horrific event as "their 9-11".
    • 2023 October 9, Ben Doherty, “Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[6], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 November 2023:
      Drawing a US analogy, he said the weekend’s attack, for Israel, “could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbor wrapped into one”.
  2. (Internet slang, humorous) A negative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is, hyperbolically, comparable to that of the September 11 attacks.
    This was my 9/11.
    9/11 for unfunny people

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