FOURTEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourteen mean? 

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

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

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

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

1. being one more than thirteen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURTEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

14; fourteen; XIV

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

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• FOURTEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than thirteen

Synonyms:

14; fourteen; xiv

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

A minute later came the shaggy deer-hounds, a dozen or fourteen of them, running on a hot scent, with nose to earth and tail in air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These, added to the six of the original team, and Teek and Koona, the huskies obtained at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, brought the team up to fourteen.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Ah! Miss Dashwood—a subject such as this—untouched for fourteen years—it is dangerous to handle it at all!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Death Larsen is in command of the only sealing steamer in the fleet, the Macedonia, which carries fourteen boats, whereas the rest of the schooners carry only six.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were able to extract complete mitochondrial DNA sequences from fourteen.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

It is an old one now—fourteen years old—and yet they have not got to the end of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fourteen minutes to be given to those with whom she had thankfully passed six weeks not six months ago!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

K2-229b orbits this star every fourteen hours.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A synthetic, fourteen amino acid peptide and agonist of intestinal guanylate cyclase type C (GC-C), which is structurally related to the guanylin peptide family, with secretagogue, analgesic and laxative activities.

(Linaclotide, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh examined donated ovarian tissue from fourteen female cancer patients, most of whom had Hodgkin lymphoma, and compared it to tissue from healthy women.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)