Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 18 in a series.
- noun One of 18 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next after the seventeenth: an ordinal numeral.
- noun The quotient of unity divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts of anything; an eighteenth part.
- noun In music, an interval comprehending two octaves and a fourth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Next in order after the seventeenth.
- adjective Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.
- noun The eighth after the tenth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
eighteen . - noun The person or thing in the eighteenth position.
- noun One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.
- noun informal A
party to celebrate an eighteenthbirthday .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective coming next after the seventeenth in position
- noun position 18 in a countable series of things
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Examples
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[28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211).
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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The first thing to do was to cultivate the foreign example; and with that what we call the eighteenth century began.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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If we are not deceived in that hope, if the art of to-day has really come alive out of the slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century, it will surely grow and gather strength and draw to it other forms of intellect and hope that now scarcely know it; and then, whatever changes it may go through, it will at the last be victorious, and bring abundant content to mankind.
Hopes and Fears for Art William Morris 1865
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The Marquis: Inferno - Gotta love Guy Davis 'writing and drawing a weirdly-masked vigilante fighting demons in eighteenth-century France.
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Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth-century wealthy families?
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Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth-century wealthy families?
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Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth-century wealthy families?
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Why did men of rank in eighteenth-century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels?
Scarlet Heels 2009
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Keanu will be playing a samurai swordsman in eighteenth century Japan.
‘Leagues’ Out, ‘Ronin’ In « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Why did men of rank in eighteenth-century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels?
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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