nineteen
numUK /ˈnaɪntiːn/ · US /ˈnaɪnˌtin/
Etymology From Middle English nyntene, nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten. Equivalent to nine + -teen
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The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
- She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.1997, Swan Dive, “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive:
- Derived terms
- nineteenth, nineteen-fifties, nineteenfold, nineteen hand, nineteen hundred, nineteen hundreds, nineteenish, nineteenness, nineteenpence, nineteen to the dozen
- Related terms
- decennoval, Last: eighteen. Next: twenty