Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 14 in a series.
- noun One of 14 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next after the thirteenth: an ordinal numeral.
- noun The quotient of unity divided by fourteen; one of fourteen equal parts of anything: as, nine fourteenths of an acre.
- noun In music, the octave or replicate of the seventh, an interval one diatonic degree less than two octaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Next in order after the thirteenth.
- adjective Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be divided.
- noun One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen.
- noun (Mus.) The octave of the seventh.
- noun One next after the thirteenth in a series.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
fourteen . - noun The person or thing in the fourteenth position.
- noun One of fourteen equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun position 14 in a countable series of things
- adjective coming next after the thirteenth in position
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Coraline: Summary and book reviews of Coraline by Neil Gaiman. 2002
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Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.
Timeline: Summary and book reviews of Timeline by Michael Crichton. 1999
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It’s called Heart’s Blood and is a dark fantasy romance set in fourteenth century Ireland.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Juliet Marillier, Part 2 2006
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The end of the century and the beginning of the fourteenth were an especially dynamic period.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Cossacks, whose appearance towards the end of the thirteenth century or at the beginning of the fourteenth was a remarkable event which possibly alone (suggests Gogol) prevented any further inroads by the two Mohammedan nations into Europe.
Taras Bulba 2003
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"Then you've got troubles, because tomorrow is the fourteenth, which is like the Fourth of July, and this town locks up."
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"Then you've got troubles, because tomorrow is the fourteenth, which is like the Fourth of July, and this town locks up."
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The fugitive from Poland, the fugitive from the Tatar and the Turk, homeless, with nothing to lose, their lives ever exposed to danger, forsook their peaceful occupations and became transformed into a warlike people, known as the Cossacks, whose appearance towards the end of the thirteenth century or at the beginning of the fourteenth was a remarkable event which possibly alone (suggests Gogol) prevented any further inroads by the two Mohammedan nations into Europe.
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It may be necessary, therefore, to explain to those who are unacquainted with the Italian mode of speaking in this respect that the Italians always speak of what we should call the fourteenth century as the "trecento," what we should call the fifteenth, as the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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