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noun
1.
a cardinal number, ten plus five.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
4.
amounting to 15 in number.
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Fifteen
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Example Sentences
- Over the past fifteen years, paleontologists have described more than twenty species of feathered dinosaurs.
- If they do exceed fifteen thousand, it would cost a lot of resources to integrate these people back into society.
- The backlog, however, will take another fifteen thousand years to clean out.
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Word Origin & History
fifteen
O.E. fiftyne, from fif "five" + tyne "teen," from ten "ten." (cf. O.N. fimtan, Swed. femton, Du. vüftien, Ger. fünfzehn, Goth. fimftaihun).
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