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fifteen
[fif-teen]
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus five.
a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
amounting to 15 in number.
fifteen
1/ ˈɪˈپː /
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and five
a numeral, 15, XV, etc, representing this number
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 15 units
a rugby union football team
determiner
amounting to fifteen
fifteen jokes
( as pronoun )
fifteen of us danced
Fifteen
2/ ˈɪˈپː /
noun
history the Jacobite rising of 1715
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fifteen1
Example Sentences
Using up to six electric pumps per boat, the smugglers can often finish the job in less than fifteen minutes.
To underline the renewed urgency, a senior Israeli military official has said that there was information that Iran had enough material to make fifteen nuclear bombs within days.
On the Underground Garage Cruise, all shows are a short walk away and run from an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes.
"The answer to those two questions will tell you where does the US-Israel relationship go five, ten, fifteen years from now."
In Berlin, he observes that “the edges of the houses seemed askew,” while “the street down below rolled away very straight into an endless distance,” evoking “how films had looked fifteen years earlier.”
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When To Use
The word fifteen is hard to spell because it doesn’t simply combine the spelling of the base number, five, with the suffix -teen, as is done in other easy-to-remember spellings like fourteen and sixteen. How to spell fifteen: When five is combined with suffixes, the ve is turned into an f: fifteen (not fiveteen), fifty (not fivety), and fifth (not fiveth). Remember: there’s no v in fifteen.
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