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fifteenth

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fifteenth.

Editorial note

It would be better because a fifteenth is a double octave, but eight times two is not fifteenth.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The person or thing in the fifteenth position.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fifteenth gathered in one view.

noun

The person or thing in the fifteenth position.

noun

One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.

adjective

The ordinal form of the number fifteen.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fifteenth.

noun

The person or thing in the fifteenth position.

noun

One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.

adjective

The ordinal form of the number fifteen.

noun

(music) The interval comprising two octaves.

Example sentences

1

It would be better because a fifteenth is a double octave, but eight times two is not fifteenth.

2

> It would be better because a fifteenth is a double octave, but eight times two is not fifteenth.

3

Wouldn't it be nicer if the octave was called a seventh, and the fifteenth was called a fourteenth?

4

It wasn't until 84 years after the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that Congress passed laws enforcing them.

5

It was the capital of the roman empire, and remained Christian until til fifteenth century.

6

Under the pressure of cost controls, Japanese researchers found ways to perform the same diagnostic technique for one-fifteenth the American price.

7

For example if 14 in 15 lose the investmnet and the fifteenth makes 10x in 3 years, then that is not great.

8

There are several well-documented examples throughout history: Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century[1], and the Florence Renaissance during the fifteenth century.

9

I imagine the fifteenth amendment took a lot of political too and for to get passed.

10

Italian Kings in the fifteenth century had them expelled or executed.

11

I like putting a semicolon on every third and fifth line, but omitting it on every fifteenth line and on leap years.

12

In the fifteenth century they would've called it honourable fealty...

Quote examples

1

Now we're in the "two thousand and fifteenth year of our lord".

2

The ink remains untested, and a radiocarbon study of the parchment of one key map—the only one subjected to such analysis—dates the sheepskin vellum to the fifteenth or sixteenth century, a sign the map is at best a copy." Which raises the possibility that the maps are forgeries from the sixteenth century, not the twentieth.

3

"What made oil paint so exciting, when it first became popular in the fifteenth century, was that you could actually make the finished work from the prototype." This is not how people painted with oil until the 19th century.

4

"Ah yes, the famous story of Francois the builder, who owed his brother Juan thirty-five rubles and agreed to repay him by shearing his sheep on the fifteenth day following the next new moon, knowing full well that the fifteenth day following the next new moon was a sabbath day, on which sheep-shearing was forbidden."

Proper noun examples

1

And I somehow kept skipping over the Fourteenth and reading the Fifteenth, even after I didn't believe it and double checked.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fifteenth in a sentence?

It would be better because a fifteenth is a double octave, but eight times two is not fifteenth.

What does fifteenth mean?

The person or thing in the fifteenth position.

What part of speech is fifteenth?

fifteenth is commonly used as noun, adjective.