fourteenth
Speech parts
1. fourteenth - Noun
2. fourteenth - Adjective
3. fourteenth - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
The octave of the seventh.
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Examples
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.
Mexico will emerge as a major global economic power. Ranked fourteenth or fifteenth early in the century, it will be firmly within the top ten by 2080. With a population of 100 million, it will be a power to be reckoned with anywhere in the world-except on the southern border of the United States.
If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.