fourteen [fawr-teen, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- a symbol for this number, as 14 or XIV.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 14 in number.
Origin of fourteen before 950; Middle English fourtene, Old English fēowertēne. See four, -teen Examples from the Web for fourteen Contemporary Examples of fourteen
Fourteen years this woman had spent with Rigondeaux before he escaped.
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You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.
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Fourteen years on, the wooden stairs and ceiling are still charred, and the walls are studded with clusters of bullet holes.
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The first machine, the 914—so called because it could copy on paper nine inches by fourteen inches—was a complex, clunky beast.
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October 21, 2014
Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.
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Historical Examples of fourteen
There were fourteen thousand waiters in New York, if, by waiters, you meant any one.
Harry Leon Wilson
Spinifex for the first fourteen miles, and miserable country.
John Forrest
Travelled fourteen miles in about an East-North-East direction and camped.
John Forrest
At fourteen I didn’t much care where they stood, if it wasn’t on my corns.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870
Various
To a gentle loose, and the King of Spain for a mark at fourteen score!
Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for fourteen fourteen noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and four
- a numeral, 14, XIV, etc, representing this number
- something represented by, representing, or consisting of 14 units
determiner
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- amounting to fourteenfourteen cats
- (as pronoun)the fourteen who remained
Word Origin for fourteen Old English fēowertīene Word Origin and History for fourteen n.
c.1300, from Old English feowertyne; see four + -teen. Cf. Old Saxon fiertein, Old Frisian fiuwertine, Dutch veertien, Old High German fiorzehan, German vierzehn, Gothic fidwortaihun.