fifteen

[Fif·teen`]

The cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

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Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

Adjective S.
being one more than fourteen


a.
Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

n.
The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

n.
A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.


Fifteen

Fif"teen` , a. [OE. fiftene, AS. f'c6ftne, f'c6ftne. See Five, and Ten, and cf. Fifty.] Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Fifteen

Fif"teen`, n. 1. The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects. 2. A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.

Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

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Usage Examples

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

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