nineteen

[ nahyn-teen ]

noun

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.

adjective

1. amounting to nineteen in number.

nineteen

/ ˌnaɪnˈtiːn /

noun

1. See number
   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. talk nineteen to the dozen
   talk nineteen to the dozen to talk incessantly

determiner

1. 1. amounting to nineteen

      nineteen pictures

   2. ( as pronoun )

      only nineteen voted

Word History and Origins

Origin of nineteen¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of nineteen¹

Old English nigontīne

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. talk nineteen to the dozen, to talk very rapidly or vehemently:

   Whenever I'm excited I talk nineteen to the dozen.

Example Sentences

“This is a political verdict,” the father of nineteen-year-old Ahmed Khaleefa, who was killed in 2011, told Reuters.

From The Daily Beast

"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.

From The Daily Beast

Here I am, played here for nineteen years, I'm the one who stayed.

From The Daily Beast

He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.

From The Daily Beast

He had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.

From The Daily Beast

No historian claims that any God has been seen on earth for nearly nineteen centuries.

From Project Gutenberg

He began work at the early age of thirteen, had grown up on the railway and at nineteen was a station master.

From Project Gutenberg

How can we rely upon such evidence after nineteen hundred years, and upon a statement of facts so important and so marvellous?

From Project Gutenberg

Out of three hundred and fifty white soldiers in the column he had lost one hundred and nineteen.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.

From Project Gutenberg