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fourteen


fourteen [fawr-teen, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. a cardinal number, ten plus four.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 14 or XIV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

  1. 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.

    The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind

    Brin-Jonathan Butler

    December 19, 2014

  • You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.

    When It Comes to Great Whisky, The Size of Your Still Matters

    December 9, 2014

  • Fourteen years on, the wooden stairs and ceiling are still charred, and the walls are studded with clusters of bullet holes.

    ‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis

    Nina Strochlic

    November 23, 2014

  • The first machine, the 914—so called because it could copy on paper nine inches by fourteen inches—was a complex, clunky beast.

    Pioneers in Printing

    The Daily Beast

    October 21, 2014

  • Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.

    Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother

    Justin Jones

    October 19, 2014

  • Historical Examples of fourteen

  • There were fourteen thousand waiters in New York, if, by waiters, you meant any one.

    The Spenders

    Harry Leon Wilson

  • Spinifex for the first fourteen miles, and miserable country.

    Explorations in Australia

    John Forrest

  • Travelled fourteen miles in about an East-North-East direction and camped.

    Explorations in Australia

    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!

    The White Company

    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • British Dictionary definitions for fourteen fourteen noun

    1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and four
    2. a numeral, 14, XIV, etc, representing this number
    3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 14 units

    determiner

      1. amounting to fourteenfourteen cats
      2. (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.

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