NINETEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nineteen mean? 

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

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

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

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

1. being one more than eighteen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINETEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

19; nineteen; XIX

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

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

Derivation:

nineteen (being one more than eighteen)

• NINETEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than eighteen

Synonyms:

19; nineteen; xix

Similar:

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

Derivation:

nineteen (the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one)

 Context examples 

One does not like to see a girl of eighteen or nineteen so immediately up to every thing—and perhaps when one has seen her hardly able to speak the year before.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am near nineteen: but I am not married.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It shall be stopped, your tide must not turn so soon, nineteen is too young, Beth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The reaction of nineteen hours a day for many days was strong upon him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A human life stage that begins at nineteen years of age and continues until twenty-one complete years of age.

(Late Adolescence, NICHD)

Had we taken nineteen vessels, we should never have said it was well done while the twentieth sailed the seas.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or to be more exact, in nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nineteen healthy adults consumed a proprietary plant-based diet that provided between 34% and 54% of the normal caloric intake with at least 9–10% protein, 34–47% carbohydrate, and 44–56% fat.

(Health Effects of a Diet that Mimics Fasting, NIH)

A natural number greater than seventeen and less than nineteen and the quantity that it denotes.

(Eighteen, NCI Thesaurus)