fourteen
- numeral
- /fɔrˈtin/
- 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.
- Brentford are now unbeaten in each of their last fourteen Premier League London derbies.
- So I finished fourteen books this month.
- And by far the biggest challenge in those fourteen years is to give creatives more self esteem.
- OK, Akon has two number one hits, fourteen in the top ten.
Examples
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My grandmother grew up with fourteen siblings in a three bedroom house with one bathroom.
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I need fourteen apples to make this pie.
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So I finished fourteen books this month.
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Just tell us quickly what happened in those fourteen years and how you found your way there.
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Today is day fourteen of our trek back from every space camp.
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Fourteen of them chose to give him a television set.
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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
A Roman numeral for fourteen
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.