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FOURTEENTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fourteenth mean?
• FOURTEENTH (noun)
The noun FOURTEENTH has 1 sense:
1. position 14 in a countable series of things
Familiarity information: FOURTEENTH used as a noun is very rare.
• FOURTEENTH (adjective)
The adjective FOURTEENTH has 1 sense:
1. coming next after the thirteenth in position
Familiarity information: FOURTEENTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position 14 in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("fourteenth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the thirteenth in position
Synonyms:
14th; fourteenth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
The designation for each member of the fourteenth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.
(Chromosome 14, NCI Thesaurus)
Missing, it said, on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named Hosmer Angel.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is now three years ago (she had just reached her fourteenth year,) that I removed her from school, to place her under the care of a very respectable woman, residing in Dorsetshire, who had the charge of four or five other girls of about the same time of life; and for two years I had every reason to be pleased with her situation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It is alleged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the administration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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