fifteen

Examples

• All

• The concert starts in fifteen minutes, so we should hurry.

• My plan was to stay for fifteen months to study the bees during two winter seasons.

  Academic text (1990)

• Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your car insurance.

  25 Hill (2011)

• All of this seemed easier fifteen years ago

  The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983)

• For the first time in fifteen years, I think I'm really onto something here.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "We've been parked in front of it for more than fifteen minutes," the driver answered.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Its domestic service is limited to fifteen cities, with 328 nonstop flights a week.

  Academic text (1990)

• We sat in uneasy silence in a small downstairs parlor for perhaps fifteen minutes before Dickens reappeared.

  Fiction book (1990)

• I have fifteen apples in my basket.

• He is fifteen years old and just got his driving permit.

Synonyms

X

XV

vsfifteen

5 2.8

A Roman numeral for fifteen

is the same quantity expressed as Arabic digits

Compounds

O

one hundred fifteen

• US

1 1.0

The number after 114 and before 116

How Many

thirty

∞ 1.0

twenty

∞ 1.0

eighteen

216 1.0

fifteen

561 1.0

ten

311 1.0

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Etymology