释义
[ nahyn -teen ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈnaɪnˈtin / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun a cardinal number, ten plus nine.
a symbol for this number, as 19 or XIX.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective amounting to nineteen in number.
Idioms for nineteentalk nineteen to the dozen , to talk very rapidly or vehemently: Whenever I'm excited I talk nineteen to the dozen.
Origin of nineteen before 1000; Middle English nintene, Old English nigontȳne. See nine, -teen
Words nearby nineteen ninepins, nine plus two array, nine plus zero array, niner, nine-spot, nineteen , Nineteen Eighty-Four, nineteenth, Nineteenth Amendment, nineteenth hole, nineteenth man
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Example sentences from the Web for nineteen "My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up | Tom Boswell| September 27, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Here I am, played here for nineteen years, I'm the one who stayed.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up | Tom Boswell| September 27, 2014| DAILY BEAST
He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune | Mike Lupica| September 13, 2014| DAILY BEAST
He had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.
The Resilient City: New York After 9/11 | John Avlon| September 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
I tell myself not to feel bad because my life expectancy is eighty-six, which means I have nineteen more years of life.
Diane Keaton Refuses to Give In to Aging | Diane Keaton| May 19, 2014| DAILY BEAST
When, in 1466, he reached the age of nineteen , he was already engaged at the Certosa as a sculptor.
The Cathedral Builders | Leader Scott
Hughie was a flaxen-haired, rather good-looking boy of nineteen .
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West | William MacLeod Raine
We marched nineteen miles and arrived at the Big Sandy Creek.
Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return | William P. Seville
Only nineteen Acts were passed in the two sessions of 1868 and 1869.
Our First Half-Century | Government of Queensland
In 1721, this disease, after a respite of nineteen years, again appeared as an epidemic.
Medical Essays | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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British Dictionary definitions for nineteen noun the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and nine and is a prime number See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 19, XIX, etc, representing this number
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 19 units
talk nineteen to the dozen to talk incessantly
determiner amounting to nineteen nineteen pictures (as pronoun ) only nineteen voted Word Origin for nineteen Old English nigontīne
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