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14er

14er is the alternative form of fourteener.

Meaning of fourteener

Noun

fourteener (plural fourteeners)

  1. (US) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
  2. A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
    • He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography

Forms of 14er

plural14ers

Origin of 14er

From 14 + -er.

Questions about 14er

What is 14er the alternative form of?
14er is the alternative form of fourteener.

Words near 14er in the dictionary

  1. 1440s
  2. 147
  3. 147s
  4. 1488er
  5. 1488ers
  6. 14er
  7. 14ers
  8. 14K
  9. 14s
  10. 14th
  11. 14ᵗʰ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 14er (page history and authors); fourteener (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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