FIFTEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifteen mean? 

• FIFTEEN (noun)
  The noun FIFTEEN has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

  Familiarity information: FIFTEEN used as a noun is very rare.

• FIFTEEN (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTEEN has 1 sense:

1. being one more than fourteen

  Familiarity information: FIFTEEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

15; fifteen; XV

Hypernyms ("fifteen" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Derivation:

fifteen (being one more than fourteen)

• FIFTEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than fourteen

Synonyms:

15; fifteen; xv

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

Derivation:

fifteen (the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one)

 Context examples 

You could have got fifteen to one yesterday, but the price has become shorter and shorter, until you can hardly get three to one now.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I only gave fifteen shillings for the bust, and I think you ought to know that before I take ten pounds from you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin talked for fifteen minutes with him, nor could Ruth have wished better behavior on her lover's part.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the end of fifteen minutes, the carriage swung in through a stone gateway and on between a double row of arched and interlacing walnut trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word 'Recess!' had never seemed so welcome to her before.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I took my way to Paddington, where I arrived about fifteen minutes before the train came in.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At last it showed, small and black, on the horizon, fully fifteen miles away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I tell her that pick-and-shovel man get fifteen dollars a day in the mines.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His purse contained two pounds fifteen.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)