Fifteenth
[fɪf'tiːnθ] or ['fɪf'tinθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 15 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
(a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
(n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
(n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
(n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
(n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
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Examples
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As early as the fifteenth century we have much evidence of the universality of the game all over southern Europe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Such store-houses were erected in almost every town during the fifteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were invented in the fourteenth century but were not much used until the fifteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All over Europe in the fifteenth century merchants and sailors were speculating about new ways to the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was only as the fifteenth century drew to its close that any indications of the real vitality of Western Europe became clearly apparent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is probably the same as the match-lock revolver in the museum of the Tower of London, which is also credited to the Fifteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The high seas called for the sailing ship, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it appears, keeping its course by the compass and the stars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here we devote a section to certain elementary statements about the movement in men's religious ideas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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