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fifteenth

fifteenth

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A person or thing that comes after fourteen others in order
  • noun
  • /ˈfɪfˌtiːnθ/
translation icon : decimoquinto
  • The hinterland was under Turkish rule from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
  • fifteenth century
  • fifteenth and sixteenth
  • fifteenth through eighteenth

Examples

  • We were there in the early hours of the fifteenth to make certain no one got into our places.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Well, someone is making assumptions we're all available August fifteenth.

    I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)

  • The interest rate for the loan had been good only until the fifteenth of February.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Fifteenth of April, I think.

    Interstellar (2014)

  • The night before was Friday, November fifteenth, and Allan and Karen Grant were at a faculty party together.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Soon would come Assumption Day, the fifteenth of August, 1935, his fiftieth birthday.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The classic case is that of the European witch hunts, which lasted from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Its head was Lieutenant Laurance F. Safford, ranked fifteenth in the Annapolis class of 1916.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The fifteenth runner crossed the finish line after a long race.

  • She has an appointment on the fifteenth of March to discuss her project.

Synonyms

15th
vsfifteenth
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Coming after the fourteenth in a list

is the spelled-out word form rather than the numeral form

Surface Forms

fifteenth singular
fifteenths plural

Morphology

fifteenth = fifteen (transparent) = fifteen + th

The noun sense is derived by forming the ordinal ('fifteen' + '-th') and then using it as a noun (conversion); the relation to 'fifteen' is straightforward.

Etymology

Fifteenth comes from the number fifteen, which is five plus 'ten', and the ending -th turns a number into the idea of a place in a sequence, as in tenth or fifth. So, as a noun, the fifteenth is 'the person or thing in position number 15'.