nineteenth

[ nahyn-teenth ]

/ ˈnaɪnˈtinθ /

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adjective

next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19.

being one of 19 equal parts.

noun

a nineteenth part, especially of one (1/19).

the nineteenth member of a series.

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Origin of nineteenth

before 900; Middle English nyntenthe (see nineteen, -th²); replacing nientethe,Old English nigonteotha;see nine, tithe

Words nearby nineteenth

nine plus zero array, niner, nine-spot, nineteen, Nineteen Eighty-Four, nineteenth, Nineteenth Amendment, nineteenth hole, nineteenth man, ninetieth, nine-to-five

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How to use nineteenth in a sentence

Sprawling across a quarter of the globe, the nineteenth and twentieth-century British Empire was the largest in history.
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This was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.
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First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.
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A series of political movements and cultural revolutions changed this, beginning as far back as the nineteenth century.
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The origins of the term dyslexia can be traced back to late nineteenth century Europe.
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He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century.
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The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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The economists and the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century were in no doubt about this question.
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The narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.
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The attitude of the nineteenth century upon this point was little short of insane.
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As my friend said, could any one believe this of a well-educated man in the nineteenth century?
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British Dictionary definitions for nineteenth

nineteenth

/ (ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ) /

adjective

(usually prenominal)

coming after the eighteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc, being the ordinal number of nineteen. Often written: 19th
(as noun)the nineteenth was rainy

noun

one of 19 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier)a nineteenth part

the fraction that is equal to one divided by 19 (1/19)

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