A stylish lounge bar named for the number nine – a figure rich with meaning, from cats’ lives to cloud nine to the highest single digit
Nine Lounge in Greenwich holds forty-two hundred and twenty-three reviews and a 4.6 – a strong score on an enormous sample, one of the best-supported in this survey – and it carries a clean, stylish, modern name built on a single resonant number: nine, a figure rich with meaning and good fortune across human culture.
The stylish number-name
“Nine Lounge” pairs a single number with the word “lounge,” creating a clean, modern, stylish name for a bar. The number-name is a genuine contemporary trend this survey has met throughout – the venue named for a number, whether an address, a lucky figure, or simply a clean and memorable digit. “Nine,” as a name, is clean, distinctive, and quietly resonant – a single, strong, memorable number, paired with “lounge” to suggest a stylish, comfortable, sophisticated bar. It is a modern, confident, appealing name, and its enormous following suggests a genuinely popular and successful venue.
The resonance of nine
The number nine is genuinely rich with meaning and resonance across human culture – more so, perhaps, than any other single digit. It is the highest of the single digits, the number just before the great threshold of ten – and this gives it a quality of completeness, culmination and near-perfection. In many cultures, nine is a number of special significance and good fortune. In Chinese culture, nine is a highly auspicious number, associated with the emperor, with longevity and with good fortune – the Chinese for “nine” sounds like the word for “long-lasting,” making it a number of great luck and blessing. The imperial associations of nine in China are profound – the emperor’s robes bore nine dragons, and the great imperial buildings were built with nines.
Cats, clouds and more
Nine runs through our language and culture in countless happy expressions. A cat, famously, has “nine lives” – the number of luck, survival and resilience. To be “on cloud nine” is to be in a state of perfect bliss and happiness – the ninth cloud, the highest and happiest of all. To be “dressed to the nines” is to be dressed to perfection, in the finest possible style. “The whole nine yards” means everything, the complete and total extent. There are nine muses of Greek myth (the goddesses of the arts and sciences), nine orders of angels in medieval theology, nine circles in Dante’s vision, and nine planets in the old reckoning of the solar system. Nine is a number of completeness, luck, bliss, perfection and richness – a genuinely resonant and fortunate figure.
For a stylish lounge bar, “nine” is thus a genuinely apt and appealing name – suggesting good fortune, bliss (“cloud nine”), perfection (“dressed to the nines”), and completeness. It promises a stylish, sophisticated, fortunate place – a bar of good luck and good times, of blissful cloud-nine evenings and dressed-to-the-nines glamour. Whether or not the founders intended all these resonances, the number carries them, and they suit a lounge bar beautifully. The enormous following and strong score suggest a genuinely popular, stylish, successful venue – living up to the lucky, blissful, perfect resonance of its number. The Prat’s numbers desk salutes the fortunate nine.
The bar
A strong, hugely popular lounge bar doing a good 4.6 across an enormous sample, stylishly named “Nine Lounge” after the number nine – rich with resonance of luck, bliss, completeness and perfection.
Verdict
Strong, hugely popular, and stylishly named “Nine Lounge” – after the resonant, fortunate number nine, of cats’ lives and cloud nine and dressed to the nines.
Go to Nine Lounge for a stylish evening, and enjoy the rich resonance of the number – nine, the highest digit, the number of luck and bliss and perfection, of cloud nine and cats’ nine lives and being dressed to the nines.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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