eighteenth
[ey-teenth]
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adjective
next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
being one of 18 equal parts.
noun
an eighteenth part, especially of one (1/18).
the eighteenth member of a series.
Origin of eighteenth
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Examples from the Web for eighteenth
Contemporary Examples of eighteenth
I can't rebuild my apartment on the fifth floor while you keep your apartment on the eighteenth floor just as it is.
William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination.
Historical Examples of eighteenth
The close of the eighteenth century shortened the one as much as the other.
Leading Articles on Various SubjectsHugh Miller
If you doubt it, read the literature of the eighteenth century.
Audrey CravenMay Sinclair
This house dated from about the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Hampstead and MaryleboneGeraldine Edith Mitton
Titchfield Street was built about the end of the eighteenth century.
Hampstead and MaryleboneGeraldine Edith Mitton
This journal is the best on the subject, written in the eighteenth century.
Afloat on the OhioReuben Gold Thwaites
eighteenth
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