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- adjective one more than eighteen; denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eighteen and one less than twenty; -- representing the number nineteen as Arabic numerals.
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- noun The cardinal number
nineteen .
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- adjective being one more than eighteen
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
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gangerh commented on the word 19
Let me tell you how it will be,
There's one for you, nineteen to me,
'cos I'm the Taxman,
November 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word 19
And can you tell me, doctor, why I stil can't get to sleep?
And night-time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen.
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And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real.
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
God help me, I was only nineteen.
- Redgum, 'I Was Only Nineteen'.
November 19, 2008