eighteenth

Speech parts

1. eighteenth - Noun

2. eighteenth - Adjective

3. eighteenth - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

18th xviii XVIIIth eighteen ordinal seventeenth xxvii seventeen xvii the 1800s the 18th the age of enlightenment the early 1800s the early nineteenth century the eighteenth
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Hypernyms

rank

Phrases with the word

eighteenth letter the eighteenth the late eighteenth century thirty-eighteenth eighteenth greek letter

Examples

18th 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

Close letter words and terms

eighteenmo eighteenpence eighteenpenny Eighteenth Amendment eighteenth greek letter eighteenth letter