eighteenth
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- noun
- /ˈeɪˌt̬iːnθ/
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decimoctavo
- 24 scholars who believe that nationalism did not exist until the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century overlook earlier "nationalist" tracts.
- Eighteenth-Century
- end of the eighteenth
Examples
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The new urban spaces created by Bourbon administrators in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Havana generated new sites of sociability.
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The first museum to display paintings in America—in Philadelphia at the end of the eighteenth.
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On the eighteenth, it seemed as if everyone in the city were dead.
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The volume of all land above sea level is only one-eighteenth of the volume of the ocean.
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Japan invaded Manchuria on September eighteenth, 1931.
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"Foul weather," however, delayed this process, and it was not until the eighteenth that the allies reached the outskirts of Savannah.
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February eighteenth, three days after the battleship Maine blew up in Havana harbor.
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Given all these difficulties, the conclusions that can safely be drawn from table 2 about population trends in early eighteenth-century Peru are strictly limited.
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From the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, pottery was made in the Calabar area by Qua women at Ikot Ansa.
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My cousin will turn eighteenth next week, and we are planning a big party for her.
Synonyms
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Coming after the seventeenth in order
Compounds
- Formal
A 1920 change to the U.S. Constitution that banned making and selling alcohol and was repealed in 1933
A law that banned making, selling, and moving alcoholic drinks in the United States from 1920 until 1933
How Late
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Morphology
Etymology
Eighteenth is built from eight and the ending -teenth, just like thirteen and fourteen, and this ending connects the number group to 'ten'. So the eighteenth is the '18th' position in a list.