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Word

nineteenth

Phoneticsnine·teenth

US/ˈnaɪnˈtinθ/

UK/nˈaɪntiːnθ/

Definitions

01position 19

A2

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

19th

02a fraction

B2 · Math

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.

Collocations

nineteenth century

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