1. fifteenth - Noun
2. fifteenth - Adjective
3. fifteenth - Adjective Satellite
Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
An interval consisting of two octaves.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear. Harold Innis
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw. Moses Hess
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature. Frederick Rolfe
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved. Walter Pater
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. Dave Barry
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. H. G. Wells