fourteen
Americannoun
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fourteens
plural
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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
Noun Inflected Forms
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
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 ChatGPT-maker also expects to burn through roughly fourteen times as much cash than Anthropic before turning a profit in 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Dantès endures fourteen desperate years on that curséd isle, waiting for a window of opportunity to escape.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
“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 Rea Irvin
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
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
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