19th
214
1.0
- adjective
:
decimonoveno
- Andy opens the gate of this beautiful 19th-century building and walks through the courtyard to the main entrance.
- 19th century
- late 19th
- early 19th
Examples
-
Going back to Tammany Hall in the 19th century.
-
Britain controlled Egypt from the late 19th century until 1937 and Sudan from 1899 until 1956.
Academic text (2008) -
I believe it's 19th century.
-
I want to have only 19th century thoughts in my mind.
-
The walls began to fall apart in the 19th century when they lost military significance.
Academic text (2008) -
The abroad epidemic spread from China in the late 19th century and lasted well into the 20th.
Academic text (2011) -
Tom explained that in the 19th century there had been a lot of gold mining in Mecklenburg County.
Fiction book (2001) -
The simplicity that permitted the extraordinary 19th-century federal and state programs in the West has evaporated.
Academic text (1990) -
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, one of the giants of 19th-century literature, was born in 1821 in Moscow, Russia.
Fiction book (1998) -
The walls began to fall apart in the 19th century when they lost military significance.
Synonyms
35
1.0
Coming after number eighteen in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
19th = 19 (transparent) = 19 + th
A standard productive ordinal formation: the numeral '19' plus the ordinal suffix '-th' yields the expected ordinal form.
Etymology
19Th is short for nineteenth, which is made from nine and teen, meaning 'nine plus ten'. The ending -th turns a number into an order word, so 19th means 'the one after eighteen'.