Nineteen
[naɪn'tiːn;'naɪntiːn] or [,naɪn'tin]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one.
(adj.) being one more than eighteen .
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Definition
(a.) Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.
(n.) The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.
Editor: Maureen
Examples
- Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was very young, not more than nineteen then, if quite so much, but nearly two years older than she was. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was married at nineteen to a beautiful cousin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I were married on Eas'r Monday nineteen year sin, long and dree. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The scene of the daydream is sufficient for a pilgrimage at nineteen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In 1639, nineteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims on the bleak rock at Plymouth, they set up a printing press at Cambridge, Mass. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At the latter place we got three hundred prisoners, four guns, and destroyed nineteen locomotives and three hundred cars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yonder is a ruined arch of a bridge built by Julius Caesar nineteen hundred years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As we approached the crowd a tall girl of nineteen advanced toward Miriam and offered her a cup of water. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 . 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out--terms private. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nineteen, my Lady. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But we must remember that she is but nineteen as yet, unused to the art of deceiving, poor innocent creature! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You will not be nineteen always. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Taking the whole kingdom at an average, nineteen houses in twenty, or rather, perhaps, ninety-nine in a hundred, are not insured from fire. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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