fifteen

[fif-teen]

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten plus five.

2. a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 15 in number.

fifteen

¹

/ ˈfɪfˈtiːn /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and five

2. a numeral, 15, XV, etc, representing this number

3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 15 units

4. a rugby union football team

determiner

1. 1. amounting to fifteen

      fifteen jokes

   2. ( as pronoun )

      fifteen of us danced

Fifteen

²

/ ˈfɪfˈtiːn /

noun

1. history the Jacobite rising of 1715

Word History and Origins

Origin of fifteen¹

before 900; Middle English, Old English fiftene. See five, -teen

Word History and Origins

Origin of fifteen¹

Old English fīftēne

Example Sentences

Churchill also watched as, he later said, “under my very window a gentleman cast himself down fifteen storeys and was dashed to pieces, causing a wild commotion and the arrival of the fire brigade.”

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Ten, fifteen, or twenty at a time would clutch at the tape, as it streamed out with its endless lines of quotations,” Miller wrote in the Chicago Tribune of Oct.

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It's a clock that chimes every fifteen minutes, a different tune for every quarter hour, a sound the city has not heard in years.

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Huw Morgan, co-owner of the Wynnstay Hotel, said he had received regular complaints about the clock which chimes every fifteen minutes, adding he was unsatisfied by how the council had dealt with the concerns.

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Another message read to the jury which was sent by Mr Saunders said "I'll send you that bloke's number and you can get your fifteen hundred back".

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When To Use

Spelling tips for fifteen

The word fifteen is hard to spell because it doesn’t simply combine the spelling of the base number, five, with the suffix -teen, as is done in other easy-to-remember spellings like fourteen and sixteen.  How to spell fifteen: When five is combined with suffixes, the ve is turned into an f: fifteen (not fiveteen), fifty (not fivety), and fifth (not fiveth). Remember: there’s no v in fifteen.