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ordinal number
1Constituting number nineteen in a sequence; 19th.
‘the late nineteenth century’- ‘This nineteenth anniversary performance is under the capable direction of the school principal.’
- ‘In the nineteenth book in a much-loved series, the pair wins a creativity prize in a snowman contest.’
- ‘His nineteenth film is a simple, humour-filled tale that resonates with deeper themes of friendship and fate.’
- ‘Around her nineteenth birthday, Mary asked me what I thought about putting together a book on social behavior.’
- ‘Distance education evolved from the correspondence courses of the late nineteenth century.’
- ‘He made his international debut on his nineteenth birthday.’
- ‘I left England in 1944, a few days before my nineteenth birthday.’
- ‘The nineteenth edition came out in September.’
- ‘The elevator ride to the nineteenth floor didn't cause him any discernible panic.’
- ‘He left no children, and was succeeded by his second cousin Robert de Vere, nineteenth earl of Oxford.’
2Each of nineteen equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
‘a nineteenth of an acre’- ‘It would lose, on being weighed in water, about a nineteenth of its weight.’
- ‘The taxes amount to no less than a nineteenth of the property.’
- ‘The far-distant Sun, when seen from the Saturnian System, has only about a nineteenth of the superficial extent which it presents to the Earth.’
- ‘At significantly reduced rates, say a nineteenth of consumption in 2008, both of these nations could continue to utilize their domestic reserves for nearly half a millenium’
- ‘It was quite common for an individual to own an eighth of a share of one field and a nineteenth of yet another, perhaps two miles away.’
