fourteen
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, ten plus four.
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a symbol for this number, as 14 or XIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
noun
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the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and four
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a numeral, 14, XIV, etc, representing this number
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something represented by, representing, or consisting of 14 units
determiner
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of fourteen
before 950; Middle English fourtene, Old English fēowertēne. See four, -teen
Example Sentences
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Even at the lowest point of a wind turbine, Witek expresses his awe at "the feeling of freedom" compared to the fourteen years he spent at the bottom of a mine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Researchers Kohki Horie, Keiichiro Toda, Takuma Nakamura, and Takuro Ideguchi at the University of Tokyo have created a microscope capable of detecting signals across an intensity range fourteen times broader than that of standard instruments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
“Our house,” he tells a new acquaintance, “has been in Mom’s family for a hundred and fourteen years.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Oslo airport was closed between 00:30 and 03:30 and fourteen flights had to be diverted.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
A few moments after the maid leaves a new figure is approaching through the glass door—a boy several years younger than I am, thirteen or fourteen, pale and sallow-cheeked.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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 Walker, Charles Rumford
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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
“If you stop to think, you’ll see that whoever wrote that letter must have beforehand tore out all the page fourteens from the books into your house, for some reason.”
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea
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 Pullan, Leighton
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