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Definition of Fifteen
1. Adjective. Being one more than fourteen.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one.
Definition of Fifteen
1. a. Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
2. n. The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
Definition of Fifteen
1. Number. The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16). ¹
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Definition of Fifteen
1. a number [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fifteen
Literary usage of Fifteen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"fifteen grave and learned At'GTRS observed the face of the heavens, ...
fifteen keepers of the Sibylline books (their name of Qui N DECEMVIRS was derived ..."
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"SHE plunged into the chilly equinoctial darkness as the clock struck ten, for
her fifteen miles' walk under the steely stars. In lonely districts night is a ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"A chronic catarrhal enteritis has constantly existed in 1 since his first attack
of colic fifteen months 1 Its absence in this case ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"While the total number of papers and books listed increased only about one third
during this period of fifteen years those by American authors increased ..."
5. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"His fifteen Whether Procopius held precisely this relation to intimacy Belisarius
during all the fifteen years that they were with the . '"' , . ..."
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