fourteen

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen.

   […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

2. 2
   adj

   being one more than thirteen

3. 3
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

Etymology

From Middle English fourtene, from Old English fēowertīene, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Cognate with West Frisian fjirtjin, Dutch veertien, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten. Equivalent to four + -teen.