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eighteenth

eighteenth

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The position that comes after the seventeenth in a list
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪˌt̬iːnθ/
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  • 24 scholars who believe that nationalism did not exist until the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century overlook earlier "nationalist" tracts.
  • Eighteenth-Century
  • end of the eighteenth

Examples

  • The new urban spaces created by Bourbon administrators in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Havana generated new sites of sociability.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The first museum to display paintings in America—in Philadelphia at the end of the eighteenth.

    Academic text (1999)
  • On the eighteenth, it seemed as if everyone in the city were dead.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The volume of all land above sea level is only one-eighteenth of the volume of the ocean.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Japan invaded Manchuria on September eighteenth, 1931.

  • "Foul weather," however, delayed this process, and it was not until the eighteenth that the allies reached the outskirts of Savannah.

    Academic text (2014)
  • February eighteenth, three days after the battleship Maine blew up in Havana harbor.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Given all these difficulties, the conclusions that can safely be drawn from table 2 about population trends in early eighteenth-century Peru are strictly limited.

    Academic text (2001)
  • From the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, pottery was made in the Calabar area by Qua women at Ikot Ansa.

    Academic text (2007)
  • My cousin will turn eighteenth next week, and we are planning a big party for her.

Synonyms

18th
vseighteenth
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Coming after the seventeenth in order

is the word form of the same ordinal rather than the numeric form

Compounds

A 1920 change to the U.S. Constitution that banned making and selling alcohol and was repealed in 1933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

How Late

twentieth
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eighteenth
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tenth
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fifth
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first
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Surface Forms

eighteenth singular
eighteenths plural

Morphology

eighteenth = eighteen (transparent) = eighteen + th

The noun use (the ordinal as a noun) derives directly from the ordinal formation 'eighteen' + '-th', which is a regular and predictable process.

Etymology

Eighteenth is built from eight and the ending -teenth, just like thirteen and fourteen, and this ending connects the number group to 'ten'. So the eighteenth is the '18th' position in a list.