eighteenth
next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
being one of 18 equal parts.
an eighteenth part, especially of one (1/18).
the eighteenth member of a series.
Origin of eighteenth
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How to use eighteenth in a sentence
They also hope to push their estimates further back in time by examining wood samples from trees that were cut down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
300 years of tree rings show just how badly hurricanes have soaked the Carolinas | Kate Baggaley | October 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn the photo, Sherman stands, dressed in an elaborate embroidered velvet frock coat and vest from the late eighteenth century.
eighteenth-ranked Michigan might be 8-4, but its road record is 1-4.
I can't rebuild my apartment on the fifth floor while you keep your apartment on the eighteenth floor just as it is.
William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination.
When they took us for the march,” Pearl goes on, “it was our birthday: January eighteenth.
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThey gave a sort of daring unconscious eighteenth-century coquetry to what was otherwise a somewhat severe style of beauty.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe mixture was washed on the eighteenth of the said month, and a small grain of gold, weighing one-half real, was obtained.
In England the violin makers in the beginning of the eighteenth century, mostly copied the pattern and model of Steiner.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph PearceIn the eighteenth Century repairs and additions were made by the celebrated Cliquot.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing Miller
British Dictionary definitions for eighteenth
/ (ˈeɪˈtiːnθ) /
(usually prenominal)
coming after the seventeenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of eighteen: often written 18th
(as noun): come on the eighteenth
one of 18 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier): an eighteenth part
the fraction that is equal to one divided by 18 (1/18)
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