FIFTEENTH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifteenth mean? 

• FIFTEENTH (noun)
  The noun FIFTEENTH has 1 sense:

1. position 15 in a countable series of things

  Familiarity information: FIFTEENTH used as a noun is very rare.

• FIFTEENTH (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTEENTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position

  Familiarity information: FIFTEENTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTEENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 15 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("fifteenth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Derivation:

fifteenth (coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position)

• FIFTEENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position

Synonyms:

15th; fifteenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

Derivation:

fifteenth (position 15 in a countable series of things)

 Context examples 

The seizures tend to subside after the fifteenth week of life.

(Benign Neonatal Epilepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

So she cried out, “The king’s daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The designation for each member of the fifteenth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 15, NCI Thesaurus)

I’ve seen nothing later than the fifteenth century to-day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was taken to Bow Street, as well as I remember, on the completion of his fifteenth journey; when four-and-sixpence, and a second-hand fife which he couldn't play, were found upon his person.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o'clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of selling the eggs to the housekeeper and hoarding up the money she thus obtained.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was very noble—very grand—very charming!—was all that Catherine had to say, for her indiscriminating eye scarcely discerned the colour of the satin; and all minuteness of praise, all praise that had much meaning, was supplied by the general: the costliness or elegance of any room's fitting-up could be nothing to her; she cared for no furniture of a more modern date than the fifteenth century.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey’s accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)