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
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Etymology
Origin of fourteen
before 950; Middle English fourtene, Old English fēowertēne. See four, -teen
Example Sentences
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Nine percent of the U.S population openly identifies as LGBTQ, double the percentage fourteen years ago.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Kenyon is one of fourteen candidates contesting the by-election on 18 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Among fourteen civilians killed in the Gulf since the conflict began, according to an AFP tally, eight were foreign nationals from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Researchers Kohki Horie, Keiichiro Toda, Takuma Nakamura, and Takuro Ideguchi at the University of Tokyo have created a microscope capable of detecting signals across an intensity range fourteen times broader than that of standard instruments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
That fall, when I was fourteen, I started college.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
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
The genealogy has three fourteens being multiples of seven.
From The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by Josiah Blake Tidwell
The petitions of the Lord's Prayer are arranged as seven, there are seven parables in ch. xiii., seven woes in ch. xxiii., and the genealogy of our Lord is arranged in three fourteens.
From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan
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