nineteen
- numeral
- /naɪnˈtin/
- Raised in hiding, nineteen-year-old Kelsea reluctantly ascends the throne in this epic fantasy adventure.
- a nineteen-year-old
- nineteen percent
- nineteen years
Examples
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In 2006, only nineteen artists out of ninety were from the region.
Academic text (2011) -
By eight-thirty, there were nineteen people, most of them yawning and all of them looking apprehensive.
Fiction book (1991) -
Nineteen hundred and twenty nine.
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Most of us were eighteen or nineteen, and wild on that last night in Seattle.
Fiction book (1990) -
I have a nineteen-year-old myself.
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For instance, nineteen organizations in the area of science work together to produce science.gov.
Academic text (2015) -
I stopped playing hockey in 1980, at nineteen, when I contracted mononucleosis.
Academic text (1999) -
She's nineteen.
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Quinn's father had spent the summer he was nineteen working in Michigan at a cannery near Escanaba.
Fiction book (1991) -
She just turned nineteen last week and is excited to start college.
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Etymology
Nineteen comes from the parts nine and teen, where teen means 'ten more'. So nineteen literally means 'nine plus ten' and is the name of the number 19.