fourteen
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus four.
fourteens
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pluralof fourteen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
“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
What will Miss Petunia do when she finds she hasn’t any page fourteens to look at?
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Rea Irvin
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
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
