nineteenth

[ nahyn-teenth ]

/ ˈnaɪnˈtinθ /

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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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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He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century.
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She was also a buxom beauty, a kind of nineteenth century bombshell who loved to flirt.
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The greatest and noblest figure in legislative life of the nineteenth century had passed away from earth.
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He was a strange little man, a nineteenth century villain in a sense.
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Until the middle of the nineteenth century it was the fashion to regard them as a race of philosophical incompetents.
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Not until the nineteenth century, however, did a completely secular art come into being, mostly through foreign influences.
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The nineteenth dynasty ended even more disastrously than the eighteenth.
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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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