nineteenth
- next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19.
- being one of 19 equal parts.
- a nineteenth part, especially of one (1/19).
- the nineteenth member of a series.
Origin of nineteenth
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Contemporary Examples of nineteenth
This was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.
First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.
A series of political movements and cultural revolutions changed this, beginning as far back as the nineteenth century.
He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century.
She was also a buxom beauty, a kind of nineteenth century bombshell who loved to flirt.
Historical Examples of nineteenth
For about the nineteenth time Miss Priest was an engaged young lady.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
Much harm was done by the Goths and Vandals of the nineteenth century.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
I was three times as old—I thought so then—when I entered on my nineteenth year.
I never sleep quietly in my bed on the nineteenth of March.'
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
On the nineteenth of March—of all nights in the year, on the nineteenth of March!'
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
nineteenth
- (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
- 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)