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

[Middle English nintene, from Old English nigontēne; see newn̥ in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English nigontīene, nigontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Compare Dutch negentien, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.

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  • The first whole positive number I got to from one upwards that was not already listed on Wordie - Feb 17 2008.

    February 17, 2008