nineteen
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noun
Freq #11365
Meanings
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The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.
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adj
being one more than eighteen
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noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
Etymology
From Middle English nyntene, nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten. Equivalent to nine + -teen
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Synonyms
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adj
· being one more than eighteen
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