adjective
- next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
- being one of 18 equal parts.
noun
- an eighteenth part, especially of one (1/18).
- the eighteenth member of a series.
adjective
- (usually prenominal)
- coming after the seventeenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of eighteen: often written 18th
- (as noun)come on the eighteenth
noun
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- one of 18 approximately equal parts of something
- (as modifier)an eighteenth part
- the fraction that is equal to one divided by 18 (1/18)
mid-13c., egtetenþe, modified, by influence of eighteen, from Old English eahtateoða; from eight + teoða “tenth” (see -ty (1)).