Meaning

2 senses
  1. The person or thing in the nineteenth position.

  2. One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.

    девятнадцатая

More definitions
  • position 19 in a countable series of things

Examples

28 sentences
  1. Today is Thursday, the nineteenth of October.

    ruСегодня четверг, девятнадцатое октября. — marafon

    deHeute ist Donnerstag, der neunzehnte Oktober. — carlosalberto

  2. The company was founded in the nineteenth century.

  3. Modern art has broken away from nineteenth century conventions.

  4. My great-grandmother was born in the nineteenth century.

    ruМоя прабабушка родилась девятнадцатом веке. — marafon

  5. The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one of nineteen equal parts of a whole:

Origin

From nineteen + -th.

From nineteen + -th.

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Forms

plural: nineteenths
Singularnineteenth
Pluralnineteenths

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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