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

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Etymology

Origin of nineteen

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

nineteen nineteens

See “something will turn up” and “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Crashing in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 with your soccer teammates and being stranded there for nineteen months is pretty specific.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 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

“Lafayette, we are here!” the Americans announced—a tribute to the Marquis de Lafayette, who sailed to America at the age of nineteen and served as a volunteer under George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

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