1. eighteenth - Noun
2. eighteenth - Adjective
3. eighteenth - Adjective Satellite
Next in order after the seventeenth.
Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.
The eighth after the tenth.
Source: Webster's dictionary18th century During the eighteenth century the fashion was set in England by the French art. Source: Internet
A profitable trade in ivory, which gave the area its name, was carried out during the seventeenth century, but it brought about such a decline in elephants that the trade itself virtually had died out by the beginning of the eighteenth century. Source: Internet
A further engine was invented in the late eighteenth century by the locksmith and hydraulic engineer Joseph Bramah (1748–1814). Source: Internet
Although, there is some evidence that Mobilian Jargon was used about 500 miles upstream the Missouri River near the Oyo or Osage Indians during the late eighteenth century. Source: Internet
A large number of fine tombs were made in the eighteenth to twentieth dynasties, and members of later dynasties continued to bury their dead here until Roman times. Source: Internet
As a result, the sugar monoculture and slave-worked plantation society spread across Jamaica throughout the eighteenth century, decreasing Jamaica's dependence on privateers for protection and funds. Source: Internet