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Fourteenth Common

Fourteenth has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

position 14 in a countable series of things

"The fourteenth car in the race was an old Ford Mustang that managed to overtake several faster vehicles near the finish line."

2

The person or thing in the fourteenth position.

"After waiting for thirteen other candidates, she realized she was the fourteenth person to interview that morning."

Adjective
1

coming next after the thirteenth in position

"She finished her presentation as the fourteenth speaker at the conference, following directly behind the third panelist from Japan."

2

The ordinal form of the number fourteen.

"She was born on the fourteenth of May, making her birthday fall right in the middle of spring."

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
rank

Origin

Fourteenth comes from Middle English and Old English, where it was formed by combining the word for fourteen with a suffix meaning "th." This construction originally indicated the ordinal position of the fourteenth item in a sequence.

Rhyming Words
nth anth tenth month synth xanth panth plinth saunth teenth acanth cleanth jacinth seventh strenth nepenth corinth greenth absinth dozenth
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