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EIGHTEENTH

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eight⋅eenth

  [ey-teenth]
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–adjective
1. next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
2. being one of 18 equal parts.
–noun
3. an eighteenth part, esp. of one ( 1/18 ).
4. the eighteenth member of a series.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME eightenthe, eightethe, OE eahtatēotha. See eighteen + -th 2
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eight·eenth   (ā-tēnth')   
n.  

  1. The ordinal number matching the number 18 in a series.

  2. One of 18 equal parts.

eight·eenth' adv. & adj.
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