English Explanatory Dictionary

nineteen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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".

Pronunciation

/ˈnaɪntiːn/ nīnʹtēn' /ˈnaɪnˌtin/ En-us-nineteen.ogg /naɪnˈtiːn/ nīn'tēnʹ /ˌnaɪnˈtin/

Word forms

nineteen 19 XIX

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

Related words

decennoval Last: eighteen. Next: twenty

Derived words

nineteenth nineteen-fifties nineteenfold nineteen hand nineteen hundred nineteen hundreds nineteenish nineteenness nineteenpence nineteen to the dozen
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