NINETEENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nineteenth mean? 

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

1. position 19 in a countable series of things

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

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

1. coming next after the eighteenth in position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINETEENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 19 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

• NINETEENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the eighteenth in position

Synonyms:

19th; nineteenth

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Billy is a hound that was created in the nineteenth century by M.G. Hublot who cross-bred the Ceris, Montaimboeuf, and Larrye (now all extinct).

(Billy, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Chromosome 19, NCI Thesaurus)

ON this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was in the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, when the nineteenth century had run but half its course, that Negore fled after his fleeing tribe and came upon it this summer night by the head waters of the Pee-lat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Ever since the late nineteenth century when pioneering neuroscientists, Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi, drew the earliest maps of the nervous system, scientists have been developing dyes and staining methods to help distinguish the structures in the brain, including different types of cells and their state of health.

(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

"Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A year ago which of us would have received such a possibility, in the midst of our scientific, sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)