Fifteenth
adjective
Coming next after the fourteenth (14th) part in a series or counting order.
My birthday falls on the fifteenth of March.
Often appears as...
- fifteenth of march
- fifteenth century
noun
One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.
She invested a fifteenth of her income into her savings account.
Often appears as...
- a fifteenth part
- a fifteenth share
adverb
For the fifteenth time.
She rechecked her work for the fifteenth time to ensure all was correct.
Often appears as...
- did it for the fifteenth
- checked for the fifteenth
noun
The fifteenth day of the month.
They advanced the meeting to the fifteenth.
Often appears as...
- the fifteenth of january
- the fifteenth of february
adjective
Coming next after the fourteenth (14th) part in a series or counting order.
My birthday falls on the fifteenth of March.
Often appears as...
- fifteenth of march
- fifteenth century
noun
One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.
She invested a fifteenth of her income into her savings account.
Often appears as...
- a fifteenth part
- a fifteenth share
adverb
For the fifteenth time.
She rechecked her work for the fifteenth time to ensure all was correct.
Often appears as...
- did it for the fifteenth
- checked for the fifteenth
noun
The fifteenth day of the month.
They advanced the meeting to the fifteenth.
Often appears as...
- the fifteenth of january
- the fifteenth of february
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Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Position
Indicates order within a sequence, specifically the number after fourteenth.
He finished in fifteenth place in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Often used to denote centuries and specific historical time frames.
Gothic architecture was prominent in the fifteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Numerical
Although related to numbers, it represents a place in order, not a count of items.
My favorite poem is the fifteenth in the collection.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Position
Indicates order within a sequence, specifically the number after fourteenth.
He finished in fifteenth place in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Often used to denote centuries and specific historical time frames.
Gothic architecture was prominent in the fifteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Numerical
Although related to numbers, it represents a place in order, not a count of items.
My favorite poem is the fifteenth in the collection.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Position
Indicates order within a sequence, specifically the number after fourteenth.
He finished in fifteenth place in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Often used to denote centuries and specific historical time frames.
Gothic architecture was prominent in the fifteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Numerical
Although related to numbers, it represents a place in order, not a count of items.
My favorite poem is the fifteenth in the collection.
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What does it take to...
written in English in the fifteenth century couldn't hear obviously and that Epona's otro down in a swoon and certainly a great while and when she might speak she said but no spoilers you got to go read it anyway I want to draw your attention to the word might there it doesn't mean
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The rise and fall of the...
temples, and extensive road and canal systems. They did so in an inhospitable, extreme terrain, all without the use of wheels, horses, iron, or even written language. Yet within 100 years of its rise in the fifteenth century,
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Lost City of Angkor Wat...
had worked the land until it began to fail rice harvests drop and stone monument building ceased early in the fifteenth century the kingdom of Siam made profitable raids into Khmer territory a
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What does it take to...
written in English in the fifteenth century couldn't hear obviously and that Epona's otro down in a swoon and certainly a great while and when she might speak she said but no spoilers you got to go read it anyway I want to draw your attention to the word might there it doesn't mean
Video examples
The rise and fall of the...
temples, and extensive road and canal systems. They did so in an inhospitable, extreme terrain, all without the use of wheels, horses, iron, or even written language. Yet within 100 years of its rise in the fifteenth century,
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Lost City of Angkor Wat...
had worked the land until it began to fail rice harvests drop and stone monument building ceased early in the fifteenth century the kingdom of Siam made profitable raids into Khmer territory a
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Quote examples
Tom Reiss
American Author
When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.
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Zach Galifianakis
American Actor
You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
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H. G. Wells
English Author
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
American Writer
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Trey Anastasio
American Musician
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Jemima Kirke
American Actress
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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Dave Barry
American Journalist
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
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Margaret Trudeau
Canadian Author
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
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Tom Reiss
American Author
When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.
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Zach Galifianakis
American Actor
You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
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H. G. Wells
English Author
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
American Writer
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Trey Anastasio
American Musician
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Jemima Kirke
American Actress
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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Dave Barry
American Journalist
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
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Margaret Trudeau
Canadian Author
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
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