Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 18 + 1.
- noun The 19th in a set or sequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nine more than ten, or one less than twenty: a cardinal numeral.
- noun A number equal to the sum of nine and ten, or one less than twenty.
- noun A symbol representing nineteen units, as 19, or XIX, or xix.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty.
- noun The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.
- noun A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as
XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens ".
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
- adjective being one more than eighteen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is a testament to Saint Paul’s success in converting gentiles that my family worshipped at an Episcopal church bearing his name nineteen hundred years later and 4,600 miles away, on Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Camden is building a mixed income development with 68 family units in nineteen two-story buildings.
Sunia Zaterman: Public Housing: A Model for Smart Government Investment Sunia Zaterman 2010
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Book Description: Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him.
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Her book "Jacob Have I Loved" won the award in nineteen eighty-one.
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Book Description: Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him.
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Camden is building a mixed income development with 68 family units in nineteen two-story buildings.
Sunia Zaterman: Public Housing: A Model for Smart Government Investment Sunia Zaterman 2010
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As a lifelong Portlander, born right here in nineteen and fifty four, I am sick and tired of hearing this from a bunch of east coast transplants who turned my working class blue collar town into their idea of utopia.
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Camden is building a mixed income development with 68 family units in nineteen two-story buildings.
Sunia Zaterman: Public Housing: A Model for Smart Government Investment Sunia Zaterman 2010
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Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him.
gangerh commented on the word nineteen
The first whole positive number I got to from one upwards that was not already listed on Wordie - Feb 17 2008.
February 17, 2008