nineteen

American  

[nahyn-teen] / ˈnaɪnˈtin /

noun

nineteens plural

1. a cardinal number, ten plus nine.

2. a symbol for this number, as 19 or XIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to nineteen in number.

idioms

1. talk nineteen to the dozen, to talk very rapidly or vehemently.

   Whenever I'm excited I talk nineteen to the dozen.

nineteen British  

/ ˌnaɪnˈtiːn /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and nine and is a prime number See also number

2. a numeral, 19, XIX, etc, representing this number

3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 19 units

4. to talk incessantly

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determiner

1. 1. amounting to nineteen

      nineteen pictures

   2. ( as pronoun )

      only nineteen voted

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• nineteens
  plural

Etymology

Origin of nineteen

before 1000; Middle English nintene, Old English nigontȳne. See nine, -teen

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

nineteen nineteens

Britain’s top tax rates reached 95% on “unearned” income—or, as Harrison put it, “one for you, nineteen for me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

However, only six of their nineteen products tested by the FDA actually contained muscimol, and the agency admitted that muscimol “cannot explain all the symptoms reported by ill patients.”

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025

“These nineteen Americans built teams, coalitions, movements, organizations, and businesses that shaped America for the better,” the announcement from the White House said.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

It was in nineteen hundred and nineteen Yes men and women was dyin’,

From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023

The thirty teams selected to compete for the Stavros Prize represented nineteen countries on six continents and spoke twelve different languages.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Well, boys, when you get out of the nineteens, you will begin to learn something.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 by Various