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fifteenth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fifteenth has 1 sense
- fifteenth(n = noun.linkdef) Array - position 15 in a countable series of things; Array is a kind of rank
Derived form adjective fifteenth1
Adjective fifteenth has 1 sense
- fifteenth(s = adj.all) 15th - coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position; Array Derived form noun fifteenth1
CIDE DICTIONARY
fifteenth, a. [OE. fiftenthe; cf. fiftethe, AS. fīfte. See Fifteen.].
- Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing. [1913 Webster]
fifteenth, n.
- One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen. [1913 Webster]
- A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon. [1913 Webster]
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