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[ fif -teenth ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈfɪfˈtinθ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
adjective next after the fourteenth; being the ordinal number for 15.
being one of 15 equal parts.
noun a fifteenth part, especially of one (1/15).
the fifteenth member of a series.
Music . the interval of two octaves.
Origin of fifteenth before 900; Middle English fiftenthe (see fifteen, -th2 ); replacing Middle English fiftethe, Old English fīftēotha
Words nearby fifteenth fife rail, fifi hook, FIFO, fifteen, Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest — / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!, fifteenth , Fifteenth Amendment, fifth, Fifth Amendment, Fifth Avenue, fifth column
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The most persistent story about the Garter was first recorded in the fifteenth century.
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But in the fifteenth century God and Humanity were both hard of hearing.
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There are several interesting monuments including two altar tombs in the Burrell chantry with fine fifteenth century brasses.
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Story laid in Holland, near Dordrecht, about the fifteenth century.
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British Dictionary definitions for fifteenth adjective coming after the fourteenth in order, position, time, etc. Often written: 15th (as noun ) the fifteenth of the month noun one of 15 equal or nearly equal parts of something (as modifier ) a fifteenth part the fraction equal to one divided by 15 (1 /15
an interval of two octaves one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other, esp the one higher in pitch an organ stop of diapason quality sounding a note two octaves higher than that normally produced by the key depressed; a two-foot stop 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