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Definition of "fourteenth" []

  • The ordinal number matching the number 14 in a series. (noun)
  • One of 14 equal parts. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fourteenth" in a sentence
  • "Perhaps not until Joanna in fourteenth-century Naples or Elizabeth I of England would another woman show such political shrewdness and staying power as did Cleopatra during her years atop the throne of Egypt."
  • "The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own."
  • "Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France."