Fifteenth meaning

fĭf-tēnth'
The ordinal number matching the number 15 in a series.
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One of 15 equal parts.
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Preceded by fourteen others in a series; 15th.
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Designating any of the fifteen equal parts of something.
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The one following the fourteenth.
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Any of the fifteen equal parts of something;115
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In the fifteenth place, rank, group, etc.
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The ordinal form of the number fifteen.
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15th, 15th; (in names of monarchs and popes) XV.
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The person or thing in the fifteenth position.
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One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.
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Sentence Examples

  • His contributions to scientific societies began in his fifteenth year, when Professor J.

  • This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen 1 An obviously erroneous entry in the Admission Book states that he had been at school under Mr. Lovering for ten years, and was in his fifteenth year.

  • The constitution as adopted limited the suffrage to adult white males, but this provision was annulled by the fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution; and in 1880 amendments to the state constitution were adopted striking out the word " white " from the suffrage clause and adding a new article granting rights of suffrage and office holding without regard to race, colour or previous condition of servitude.

  • The latter, however, with his usual sagacity, anticipated the objections which he saw could be urged against the famous fifteenth and sixteenth chapters.

  • Majors India in the Fifteenth Century (London, Hakluyt Society, 1857).

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