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nineteen

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1. nineteen - Noun

2. nineteen - Adjective

3. nineteen - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. Joan Rivers

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. Simone de Beauvoir

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. James Thurber

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. American Proverb

Nineteen nay-says of a maiden are half a grant. Scottish Proverb

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