fifteenth
pronunciation
How to pronounce fifteenth in British English:
UK [ˌfɪf'ti:nθ]
How to pronounce fifteenth in American English:
US [fɪfˈtinθ]
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- Noun:
- position 15 in a countable series of things
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- Adjective:
- coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
Word Origin
- fifteenth (adj.)
- late 14c., from fifteen + -th (1). By 15c. displacing forms derived from Old English fifteoða. Compare Old Frisian fiftuda, Dutch vijftiende, German fünfzehnte, Old Norse fimmtandi, Gothic fimftataihunda, with ordinal -d where English has -th. As a noun by late 14c.
Example
- 1. The fifteenth , accumulate working experience in college .
- 2. Let us return to paris and to the fifteenth century .
- 3. How many fifteenth century milanese artists can you name ?
- 4. Mary just had her fifteenth birthday .
- 5. So each piece will be one fifteenth .