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nineteenth

/nahyn-teenth/US // ˈnaɪnˈtinθ //UK // (ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ) //

第十九次,第十九期,第十九届,第十九

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19.
    • : being one of 19 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nineteenth part, especially of one.
    • : the nineteenth member of a series.

Examples

  • This was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.

  • First appearing in 1779, sex-assignment surgeries became increasingly popular from the nineteenth century onward.

  • A series of political movements and cultural revolutions changed this, beginning as far back as the nineteenth century.

  • The origins of the term dyslexia can be traced back to late nineteenth century Europe.

  • He has compared attempts to justify slavery as being like attempts to justify slavery in the nineteenth century.

  • The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  • The economists and the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century were in no doubt about this question.

  • The narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.

  • The attitude of the nineteenth century upon this point was little short of insane.

  • As my friend said, could any one believe this of a well-educated man in the nineteenth century?