nineteenth
next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19.
being one of 19 equal parts.
a nineteenth part, especially of one (1/19).
the nineteenth member of a series.
Origin of nineteenth
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How to use nineteenth in a sentence
Sprawling across a quarter of the globe, the nineteenth and twentieth-century British Empire was the largest in history.
Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign | Caroline Elkins | April 2, 2022 | TimeThis was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist | Candida Moss, Joel Baden | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.
A series of political movements and cultural revolutions changed this, beginning as far back as the nineteenth century.
Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible | Jedediah Purdy | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe origins of the term dyslexia can be traced back to late nineteenth century Europe.
He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century.
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe economists and the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century were in no doubt about this question.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe attitude of the nineteenth century upon this point was little short of insane.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockAs my friend said, could any one believe this of a well-educated man in the nineteenth century?
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil Smith
British Dictionary definitions for nineteenth
/ (ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ) /
(usually prenominal)
coming after the eighteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc, being the ordinal number of nineteen. Often written: 19th
(as noun): the nineteenth was rainy
one of 19 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier): a nineteenth part
the fraction that is equal to one divided by 19 (1/19)
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