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nineteen
[nahyn-teen]
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus nine.
a symbol for this number, as 19 or XIX.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
amounting to nineteen in number.
nineteen
/ ˌԲɪˈپː /
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and nine and is a prime number See also number
a numeral, 19, XIX, etc, representing this number
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 19 units
to talk incessantly
determiner
amounting to nineteen
nineteen pictures
( as pronoun )
only nineteen voted
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nineteen1
Idioms and Phrases
talk nineteen to the dozen, to talk very rapidly or vehemently.
Whenever I'm excited I talk nineteen to the dozen.
Example Sentences
"This includes nineteen cases who were declared dead upon arrival and eight more who died due to their wounds shortly after. The majority of cases suffered gunshot wounds."
If I avoid looking into a mirror and take a bite, I am my nineteen year old self — sun bleached locks framing my face, leaner and more muscular — always somewhere close to a water’s edge.
In the 2020s, some of those girls have now grown into adult women navigating daily struggles alongside lingering trauma from their nineteen stranded months.
However, only six of their nineteen products tested by the FDA actually contained muscimol, and the agency admitted that muscimol “cannot explain all the symptoms reported by ill patients.”
A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside….
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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