: a number that is one more than 18 see Table of Numbers
nineteen
adjective
nineteen
pronoun, plural in construction
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The company’s policy of military-historical accuracy prohibits it from making inauthentic garments; actual MA-1 flight jackets, produced for about twenty years, starting in the late nineteen-fifties, were sage green.
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Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
When researchers first visited, in the late nineteen-fifties, there were no bats present in December and January, and yet, according to the data, there are now fifty thousand or more bats emerging during the winter.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
Celebrity News Twenty nineteen could prove to be Taylor Swift's biggest year yet.
—Abby Gardner, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2019
What to do with recent ruins, whether to reconstruct or replace or revere or remove them, was a prevailing design dilemma of the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties.
—Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2017
In the nineteen-fifties, Louis Marx & Company began producing figurines of every U.S. President.
—Don Steinberg, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
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Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
When researchers first visited, in the late nineteen-fifties, there were no bats present in December and January, and yet, according to the data, there are now fifty thousand or more bats emerging during the winter.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
Celebrity News Twenty nineteen could prove to be Taylor Swift's biggest year yet.
—Abby Gardner, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2019
What to do with recent ruins, whether to reconstruct or replace or revere or remove them, was a prevailing design dilemma of the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties.
—Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2017
In the nineteen-fifties, Louis Marx & Company began producing figurines of every U.S. President.
—Don Steinberg, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
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nineteen
noun
nine·teen
(ˈ)nīn(t)-ˈtēn 
: a number that is one more than 18 see number
nineteen
adjective or pronoun
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