Word
nineteenth
Phoneticsnine·teenth
US/ˈnaɪnˈtinθ/
UK/nˈaɪntiːnθ/
Definitions
01position 19
num. coming after the eighteenth and before the twentieth.
num. the ordinal form of the number nineteen, indicating a position in a sequence.
“Her nineteenth birthday is next Tuesday, so we are planning a party.”
“The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented industrial growth and social transformation across Europe.”
Synonyms
02a fraction
n. one of nineteen equal parts of a whole.
n. one of nineteen equal parts into which a whole is or may be divided.
“If you divide the cake into nineteen pieces, each piece is one nineteenth.”
“The surveyor calculated that a nineteenth of the total land area would be lost to the rising water levels.”
Etymology
From nineteen + -th.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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