Word: Nineteen

Pronunciation

/naɪnˈtiːn/

Definitions

• Numeral: The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Arabic numerals as 19. It’s used to denote quantity or position.

Example sentence (Numeral):

• “She celebrated her nineteenth birthday with a grand party.”

Phrases

• “Nineteen years old”: Refers to someone or something that has reached that specific age.
• “Nineteen out of twenty”: An expression denoting a high success rate or proportion.
• “The nineteenth century”: Refers to the period from 1801 to 1900 AD.

Example Sentences

• Numeral: “There were nineteen students in the class.”
• “I have read all nineteen books in the series.”

Synonyms

• 19
• XIX (Roman numeral)
• Nineteenth (ordinal form)

Note: Unlike some other parts of speech like nouns, verbs, or adjectives which may have various shades of meaning or usage in different contexts, “nineteen” primarily functions as a numerical value and doesn’t typically have synonymous expressions beyond its numeric representation or ordinal form.