eighteenth
Americanadjective
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next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
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being one of 18 equal parts.
noun
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eighteenths
plural
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an eighteenth part, especially of one (1/18).
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the eighteenth member of a series.
adjective
noun
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one of 18 approximately equal parts of something
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( as modifier )
an eighteenth part
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the fraction that is equal to one divided by 18 ( 1/ 18 )
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Etymology
Origin of eighteenth
before 900; Middle English eightenthe, eightethe, Old English eahtatēotha. See eighteen + -th 2
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 48,500 points, marking its eighteenth record high of the year, reflecting market optimism.
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
In the early eighteenth century, Georgia and Virginia used fines to penalize people for not voting.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
The scrolls were discovered in the eighteenth century, when workmen came across the remains of a luxury villa that might have belonged to the family of Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
UBS is the eighteenth firm to reach a settlement in the US over its role in the 2008 crisis, prosecutors said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
Hall thought it was ‘not quite’ but very nearly true to say that ‘engineering owed nothing to science’ until very late in the eighteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The faces of the volutes must recede from the edge of the abacus inwards by one and a half eighteenths of that same amount.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
As William II himself puts it, this day, like all the "eighteenths" that went before it, has its special significance.
From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam
"There aren't two eighteenths of October in one year."
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
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