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fourteen

fourteen

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A number after thirteen and before fifteen
  • numeral
  • /fɔrˈtin/
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  • The concert will start in fourteen minutes.
  • fourteen years
  • a fourteen-year-old
  • age fourteen

Brentford are now unbeaten in each of their last fourteen Premier League London derbies.

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Examples

  • My grandmother grew up with fourteen siblings in a three bedroom house with one bathroom.

  • I need fourteen apples to make this pie.

  • So I finished fourteen books this month.

  • Just tell us quickly what happened in those fourteen years and how you found your way there.

  • Today is day fourteen of our trek back from every space camp.

  • Fourteen of them chose to give him a television set.

  • An athlete in his youth, he had quit school at fourteen to play professional baseball.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Almost thirty years later, the typical class was still relatively small, with fourteen students.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Monday evening, February 18th, fourteen clubs met in Chicago for the annual contest.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Although Cubby and Penny were married for fourteen years, they never had children.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

XIV
vsfourteen
9 3.8

A Roman numeral for fourteen

is the written word for the same number rather than a symbol

Surface Forms

fourteen cardinal word
14 cardinal digit
14th ordinal digit
fourteenth ordinal word

Morphology

fourteen = four (transparent) = four + teen

Formed by the numeral 'four' plus the productive numeral suffix '-teen' meaning 'ten added to'; the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Fourteen comes from old English parts four and ten, originally 'four-ten', and the teen part is the same as in teenager. So, fourteen literally means 'ten plus four'.