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fourteenth

fourteenth

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A person or thing that is number fourteen in a series
  • noun
  • /fɔrˈtinθ/
translation icon : decimocuarto
  • For me, it would be January fourteenth, while for you it would still be the thirteenth.
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fourteenth-Century
  • Fourteenth and Sixteenth

Examples

  • I'll see you on the fourteenth...

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Wednesday the Fourteenth, Isobel sat at her kitchen table, drank coffee, and made lists.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • On the fourteenth of February last.

  • The fourteenth of the fifth lunar month is the day of her death.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Alabama would be fourteen at two o'clock in the morning on the fourteenth of July.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • It's a memo about how they're gonna deal with those oil spills that happened on the fourteenth.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The Townline driver was waiting for Ike in a white stretch limo at the northwest corner of Fourteenth.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • My birthday is on fourteenth of May, which falls on a Tuesday this year.

  • The fourteenth chapter of the book introduces a new character with an interesting backstory.

  • On the fourteenth day of the month, we will celebrate our anniversary with a small party.

Synonyms

14th
vsfourteenth
137 1.0

Number fourteen in a series

is the spelled-out word form used to mark that position

Compounds

A U.S. constitutional change that gives citizenship and equal protection to people born or naturalized in the United States

fourteenth salary
  • Philippine
7.9

An extra month's pay that workers receive after a thirteenth salary

Surface Forms

fourteenth singular
fourteenths plural

Morphology

fourteenth = fourteen (transparent) = fourteen + th

Standard ordinal formation from the numeral 'fourteen' with the productive suffix '-th', yielding 'fourteenth'.

Etymology

The word fourteenth as a noun is formed the same way: fourteen is four plus ten, and the ending -th makes it a word for 'order' or 'position'. So, a fourteenth is 'the person or thing in position fourteen', the one after the thirteenth.