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Definition of Nineteenth

1. Noun. Position 19 in a countable series of things.

Definition of Nineteenth

1. a. Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

2. n. The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.

Definition of Nineteenth

1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number nineteen. ¹

2. Noun. The person or thing in the nineteenth position. ¹

3. Noun. One of nineteen equal parts of a whole. ¹

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Definition of Nineteenth

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nineteenth

Literary usage of Nineteenth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"HEROINES OF FICTION SOME nineteenth-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN proposing to confine these studies to the nineteenth-century heroines of ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Leaving aside his influence on the movement of politics, we must give him credit for all that the French literature of the nineteenth century owes to him. ..."

3. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"CHAPTER XIII THE nineteenth CENTURY: THE TRIUMPH OF ROMANTICISM THE Romantic Movement, the beginnings of which have been traced in the preceding chapter, ..."

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