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[ nahyn-teenth ] / ˈnaɪnˈtinθ /
adjectivenext after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19. being one of 19 equal parts. nouna nineteenth part, especially of one (1/19). the nineteenth member of a series. Origin of nineteenthbefore 900; Middle English nyntenthe (see nineteen, -th2); replacing nientethe,Old English nigonteotha;see nine, tithe Words nearby nineteenthnine plus zero array, niner, nine-spot, nineteen, Nineteen Eighty-Four, nineteenth, Nineteenth Amendment, nineteenth hole, nineteenth man, ninetieth, nine-to-five Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for nineteenthThis 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|DAILY BEAST First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward. Intersexuality and God Through the Ages|Candida Moss|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST 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|DAILY BEAST He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century. Brian May Compares Royal Hunting To Slavery|Tom Sykes|February 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She was also a buxom beauty, a kind of nineteenth century bombshell who loved to flirt. Lincoln in Love|Jerome Charyn|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The greatest and noblest figure in legislative life of the nineteenth century had passed away from earth. Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century|Charles Morris He was a strange little man, a nineteenth century villain in a sense. My Strangest Case|Guy Boothby Until the middle of the nineteenth century it was the fashion to regard them as a race of philosophical incompetents. What is Coming?|H. G. Wells Not until the nineteenth century, however, did a completely secular art come into being, mostly through foreign influences. Area Handbook for Romania|Eugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole The nineteenth dynasty ended even more disastrously than the eighteenth. Patriarchal Palestine|Archibald Henry Sayce
British Dictionary definitions for nineteenth
adjective(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
noun- 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) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |