nineteenth
pronunciation
How to pronounce nineteenth in British English:
UK [ˌnaɪn'ti:nθ]
How to pronounce nineteenth in American English:
US [naɪnˈtinθ]
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- Noun:
- position 19 in a countable series of things
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- Adjective:
- coming next after the eighteenth in position
Word Origin
- nineteenth (adj.)
- late 14c., nyntenthe; from nineteen + -th (1); a replacement or modification of nigonteoþa, from Old English nigon-teoða. Nineteenth hole "bar-room in a golf clubhouse" is attested from 1901.
Example
- 1. What do you know about nineteenth century ?
- 2. She was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday .
- 3. After much worry and criticism before the start , the nineteenth commonwealth games in new delhi , india have now reached a successful conclusion without any of the disastrous events that had been predicted .
- 4. No female poet was held in higher esteem among cultured readers in both the united states and england than elizabeth barrett browning during the nineteenth century .
- 5. The ego-eco conflict , expressed as absolute subject and absolute object , was a major intellectual project around the beginning of the nineteenth century .