eighteenth
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- adjective
- /ˈeɪˌθinθ/
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- His favorite book is set in the eighteenth century during the Age of Enlightenment.
- eighteenth century
- late eighteenth
- early eighteenth
Examples
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The same attitude pervades the conception of natural equality espoused by eighteenth-century thinkers.
Academic text (1999) -
Banners announced special exhibits of eighteenth-century French crystal, Japanese swords, and the works of Rembrandt van Rijn.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the eighteenth century, no such thing.
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"If you wanted to trace people from the eighteenth century, there are companies that do that.
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In three days, you're having your eighteenth birthday.
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The French philosophes of the eighteenth century had a big problem.
Academic text (2011) -
The Ottomans absorbed the town into their empire in the eighteenth century.
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From that union came the best-known Creek of the eighteenth century: Alexander McGillivray.
Academic text (1990) -
I don't even mind the spirit figures who look like eighteenth-century European angels in white gauze.
Fiction book (1996) -
Claudia is staring at a glass case, inside of which is an array of eighteenth-century dolls.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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Coming after the seventeenth in order
Compounds
- Formal
A 1920 change to the U.S. Constitution that banned making and selling alcohol and was repealed in 1933
A law that banned making, selling, and moving alcoholic drinks in the United States from 1920 until 1933
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Morphology
Etymology
Eighteenth comes from eight + the ending -teenth, the same ending in thirteen and fourteen that links these numbers to 'ten'. So, calling something the eighteenth means it comes after the seventeenth in order.