Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 19 in a series.
- noun One of 19 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next in order or rank after the eighteenth: an ordinal numeral: as, the nineteenth time.
- Being one of nineteen: as, a nineteenth part.
- noun A nineteenth part; the quotient of unity divided by nineteen.
- noun In music, the interval, whether melodic or harmonic, between any tone and a tone two octaves and a fifth distant from it; also, a tone distant by such an interval from a given tone.
- noun In organ-building, a stop whose pitch is two octaves and a fifth above that of the keys used, as, for example, the larigot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
- adjective Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
- noun The next in order after the eighteenth.
- noun (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
nineteen . - noun The person or thing in the nineteenth position.
- noun One of nineteen
equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun position 19 in a countable series of things
- adjective coming next after the eighteenth in position
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Examples
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The place doesn't feel modern, but I couldn't really believe I was in nineteenth century New England.
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Paul Rock (2004) “Victims, prosecutors and the State in nineteenth century England and Wales,” Criminal Justice, Vol. 4, No. 4, 331 – 354 (2004).
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The Mistress of Nothing (2009), takes its inspiration from the life of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, and is set in nineteenth-century Egypt.
Audio Interview with 2009 GG Award Winner Kate Pullinger, conducted by Nigel Beale. 2009
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The Mistress of Nothing (2009), takes its inspiration from the life of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, and is set in nineteenth-century Egypt.
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The Mistress of Nothing (2009), takes its inspiration from the life of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, and is set in nineteenth-century Egypt.
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Hans Nielsen Hauge was a reformer in nineteenth-century Norway when the state church there was getting pretty moribund.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway dichroic 2008
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If ever you want to read a fine readable fictional account of day to day life in nineteenth-century London look no further, you can almost see, hear and smell it on every page of The Nether World.
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If ever you want to read a fine readable fictional account of day to day life in nineteenth-century London look no further, you can almost see, hear and smell it on every page of The Nether World.
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Jane Eyre (Ch. 12) "Shirley" is a powerful indictment of the position of women in nineteenth-century England.
The Better Part 2008
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The Doctor, Ace, and Bernice Summerfield, in nineteenth-century London, get mixed up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; and all five of them are then confronted with an invasion of Earth by the forces of Azathoth from the planet Ry'leh (sic).
October Books 10) All-Consuming Fire nwhyte 2008
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