nineteen
a cardinal number, ten plus nine.
a symbol for this number, as 19 or XIX.
a set of this many persons or things.
amounting to nineteen in number.
Idioms about nineteen
talk nineteen to the dozen, to talk very rapidly or vehemently: Whenever I'm excited I talk nineteen to the dozen.
Origin of nineteen
1Words Nearby nineteen
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How to use nineteen in a sentence
“This is a political verdict,” the father of nineteen-year-old Ahmed Khaleefa, who was killed in 2011, told Reuters.
Mubarak’s Acquittal Signals Complete Triumph of Military Over Arab Spring | Jamie Dettmer | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.
Here I am, played here for nineteen years, I'm the one who stayed.
He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.
No historian claims that any God has been seen on earth for nearly nineteen centuries.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordHe began work at the early age of thirteen, had grown up on the railway and at nineteen was a station master.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHow can we rely upon such evidence after nineteen hundred years, and upon a statement of facts so important and so marvellous?
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordOut of three hundred and fifty white soldiers in the column he had lost one hundred and nineteen.
The Red Year | Louis TracyHe was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
British Dictionary definitions for nineteen
/ (ˌnaɪnˈtiːn) /
the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and nine and is a prime number: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 19, XIX, etc, representing this number
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 19 units
talk nineteen to the dozen to talk incessantly
amounting to nineteen: nineteen pictures
(as pronoun): only nineteen voted
Origin of nineteen
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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