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fifteen

(fɪftiːn)
Word forms: plural fifteens
1. number
Fifteen is the number 15.
In India, there are fifteen official languages.
2. collective countable noun
A rugby-union team can be referred to as a fifteen.

fifteen in British English

(ˈfɪfˈtiːn)
noun
1. 
the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and five
2. 
a numeral, 15, XV, etc, representing this number
3. 
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 15 units
4. 
a rugby union football team
determiner
5. 
a. 
amounting to fifteen
fifteen jokes
b. 
(as pronoun)
fifteen of us went on the trip
Word origin
Old English fīftēne

Fifteen in British English

(ˈfɪfˈtiːn)
noun
the Fifteen

fifteen in American English

(ˈfɪfˈtin)
adjective
1. 
totaling five more than ten
noun
2. 
the cardinal number between fourteen and sixteen; 15; XV
Word origin
ME fiftene < OE: see five & -teen

Examples of 'fifteen' in a sentence
fifteen

It expects to open ten to fifteen pubs for the full year.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
But you have to look at buybacks over ten to fifteen years.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Wrap the hair in a warm towel and leave for ten to fifteen minutes.
Guyton, Anita The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home (1991)
Twelve to fifteen people joined the science group.
Christianity Today (2000)
This was their fifth trip in fifteen months.
Bruce Feiler WALKING THE BIBLE (2001)
There was a constant demand for them during the first fifteen years of the present century.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
They might come to buy something for ten or fifteen quid.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We only spent fifteen days recording it.
John Harris THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock (2003)
Leave the shampoo on the hair for ten to fifteen minutes.
Guyton, Anita The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home (1991)
The plan is to have an extra nine in the second quarter and fifteen in the full year.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Maybe in ten or fifteen years' time.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He climbed his first Alpine peak at the age of fifteen.
Eric Newby A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES (2003)
Again, they must hold their position for fifteen seconds.
Aiken, Nick Working with Teenagers (1994)
It is a square, fifteen hundred miles on each side.
Marcus J. Borg READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally. (2001)
It's as if fifteen minutes of time had been frozen for half a million years.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
In the past fifteen years, Brazil has made big strides towards becoming a more inclusive democracy.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
By 1700, the figure had reached only fifteen thousand.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
This plan, he wrote in a subsequent letter, would require reinforcements of between fifteen and twenty thousand men.
Hibbert, Christopher Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781 (1990)

In other languages
fifteen

British English: fifteen /ˈfɪfˈtiːn/ NUMBER
Fifteen is the number 15.
  • American English: fifteen
  • Arabic: خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: quinze
  • Chinese: 十五
  • Croatian: petnaest
  • Czech: patnáct
  • Danish: femten
  • Dutch: vijftien
  • European Spanish: quince
  • Finnish: viisitoista
  • French: quinze
  • German: fünfzehn
  • Greek: δεκαπέντε
  • Italian: quindici
  • Japanese: 十五
  • Korean: 15
  • Norwegian: femten
  • Polish: piętnaście
  • European Portuguese: quinze
  • Romanian: cincisprezece
  • Russian: пятнадцать
  • Latin American Spanish: quince
  • Swedish: femton
  • Thai: สิบห้า
  • Turkish: on beş
  • Ukrainian: п'ятнадцять
  • Vietnamese: mười lăm

Chinese translation of 'fifteen'

fifteen

(fɪfˈtiːn)

num

  1. 十五 (shíwǔ)
    that will be fifteen pounds, please 请(請)付15英镑(鎊) (qǐng fù shíwǔ yīngbàng)
    she's fifteen (years old) 她15岁(歲)了 (tā shíwǔ suì le)
    there are fifteen of us 我们(們)有15个(個)人 (wǒmen yǒu shíwǔ gè rén)
    all fifteen of them 他们(們)15个(個)人都 (tāmen shíwǔ gè rén dōu)
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