18th

[18th]

Coming next after the seventeenth in position

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Adjective S.
coming next after the seventeenth in position


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Usage Examples

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Misspelled Form

18th, 218th, q18th, 28th, q8th, 128th, 1q8th, 178th, 198th, 1u8th, 1i8th, 17th, 19th, 1uth, 1ith, 187th, 189th, 18uth, 18ith, 18rth, 185th, 186th, 18yth, 18gth, 18rh, 185h, 186h, 18yh, 18gh, 18trh, 18t5h, 18t6h, 18tyh, 18tgh, 18tgh, 18tyh, 18tuh, 18tjh, 18tnh, 18tg, 18ty, 18tu, 18tj, 18tn, 18thg, 18thy, 18thu, 18thj, 18thn.

Other Usage Examples

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

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