fifteenth

[fif·teenth]

Position 15 in a countable series of things

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Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Noun
position 15 in a countable series of things

Adjective S.
coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position


a.
Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

a.
Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

n.
One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

n.
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.

n.
A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

n.
An interval consisting of two octaves.


Fifteenth

Fif"teenth` , a. [OE. fiftenthe; cf. fiftethe, AS. f'c6ftea. See Fifteen.] 1. Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen. 2. Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Fifteenth

Fif"teenth`, n. 1. One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen. 2. A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. Burrill. 3. (Mus.) (a) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon. (b) An interval consisting of two octaves.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

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Usage Examples

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

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