nineteenth

From nineteen +‎ -th.

• IPA^(key): /ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ/

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• Rhymes: -iːnθ
• Hyphenation: nine‧teenth

nineteenth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number nineteen.
   • 2009, Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, Giles Scott-Smith, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations: 1609-2009, page 238:

     Images of Dutchness in American visual culture and literature during the nineteenth century differed radically between portrayals of the Netherlands Dutch and those of the American Dutch.

   • 2014, Adithep Narula, “Unlucky 13 and Human Nature”, in University of California, Santa Barbara‎^[1], page 1:

     Fortunately, this paper does not consist of 13 pages. Otherwise, in the nineteenth century, over 15% of Americans would drop this essay without a second thought, 45% would consider throwing it away, and the remaining 40% would not be influenced by whether the paper had 13 pages or not and would have a fighting chance of actually making it to the end (Lachenmeyer 92).

• 19th, 19^th; (in names of monarchs and popes) XIX

• long nineteenth century

nineteenth (plural nineteenths)

1. The person or thing in the nineteenth position.
2. One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.

• Juneteenth
• nineteenth hole

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