Fifteen
[fɪf'tiːn;'fɪftiːn] or [,fɪf'tin]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one.
(adj.) being one more than fourteen .
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Definition
(a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
(n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Editor: William
Definition
adj. and n. five and ten.—adj. Fif′teenth the fifth after the tenth: being one of fifteen equal parts.—n. a fifteenth part.—The Fifteen the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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Examples
- I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He signaled for fifteen minutes, and received no answer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the English coin, it exchanges for about fifteen ounces, that is, for more silver than it is worth, according to the common estimation of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In many regions, especially in the neighborhood of streams, water can be found ten or fifteen feet below the surface. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- To be sure, said she, it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word 'Recess! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We pay, or our friends pay, fifteen pounds a year for each. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In about two minutes he raised his head, and said: Upton, in fifteen years you will be making forty thousand lamps a day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When I first had the happiness of looking upon you, it was one fifteen, and had stood at that figure for a lengthened period. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is fifteen years since we--since I--came last from France. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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