fourteen

American  

[fawr-teen, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈtin, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

• fourteens
  plural

1. a cardinal number, ten plus four.

2. a symbol for this number, as 14 or XIV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 14 in number.

fourteen British  

/ ˈfɔːˈtiːn /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and four

2. a numeral, 14, XIV, etc, representing this number

3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 14 units

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determiner

1. 1. amounting to fourteen

      fourteen cats

   2. ( as pronoun )

      the fourteen who remained

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fourteens
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fourteen

before 950; Middle English fourtene, Old English fēowertēne. See four, -teen

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fourteen fourteens

Nine percent of the U.S population openly identifies as LGBTQ, double the percentage fourteen years ago.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

“Or ten, twelve, fourteen; one can’t be too prescriptive, where Spark is concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Kenyon is one of fourteen candidates contesting the by-election on 18 June.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

In total, researchers combined results from fourteen systematic reviews conducted between 2014 and 2023, making the evidence easier to interpret and compare.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

The boys, ages ten to fourteen, pushed streetcars into place, blocking the Maximilian Bridge.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The function is a combination of sines and cosines with a lot of sixes and fourteens floating around, but somehow it has five-fold rotational symmetry.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2015

You finish your night-week at 7.00 Sunday morning, having just done a week of one twenty-four hour shift, and six fourteens.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker

The petitions of the Lord's Prayer are arranged as seven, there are seven parables in ch. xiii., seven woes in ch. xxiii., and the genealogy of our Lord is arranged in three fourteens.

From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

The atmosphere behind the scenes has always had the effect of making me feel as if my boots were number fourteens and my hands, if anything, larger.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

It is well known that similar omissions of obscure or unworthy links occur in St. Matthew’s pedigree of our Lord, although some stress is there laid upon the recurrent division into fourteens.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick