fifteen
UK/ˈfɪf.tiːn/
fifteen numeral: the cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
Numeral
fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)
- The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
- The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.1960 December 17, C.I. Sulzberger, “Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025
- She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125
- Synonyms:
- XV, 15
Noun
fifteen (plural fifteens)
- An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.
fifteen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fifteen in Hindi
- cardinal number
- पंद्रह pandrah
fifteen in Tamil
- cardinal number
- பதினைந்து patiṉaintu
fifteen in Marathi
- cardinal number
- पंधरा pandhrā
fifteen in Urdu
- cardinal number
- پندرہ pandrah
More languagesFewer languages
- fifteen in Bengali
- পনেরো ponerō
- fifteen in Telugu
- పదిహేను padihēnu
- fifteen in Malayalam
- പതിനഞ്ച് patinañcŭ
- fifteen in Kannada
- ಹದಿನೈದು hadinaidu
- fifteen in Punjabi
- ਪੰਦਰਾਂ pandrā̃, پَندراں pandrāṉ
- fifteen in Gujarati
- પંદર pandar
- fifteen in Odia
- ପନ୍ଦର pandara
- fifteen in Sanskrit
- पञ्चदश páñcadaśa
- fifteen in Sinhala
- පහළොව pahaḷowa
- fifteen in Assamese
- পোন্ধৰ pündhoro, পনৰ pündhoro
- fifteen in Nepali
- पन्ध्र pandhra
- fifteen in Pashto
- پنځلس pinźëlas
- fifteen in Tagalog
- labinlima
- fifteen in Arabic
- خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ ḵamsata ʕašara
- fifteen in Malay
- lima belas, sepuluh lima, satu puluh lima
- fifteen in Indonesian
- lima belas
- fifteen in Persian
- پانزده pânzdah
- fifteen in Thai
- สิบห้า sìp-hâa
- fifteen in Vietnamese
- mười lăm
- fifteen in Myanmar
- ဆယ့်ငါး hcai.nga:
- Dhivehi
- ފަނަރަ fanara
- Dzongkha
- བཅོ་ལྔ bco lnga
Examples of fifteen in a sentence
- The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
- Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen.
- They only offered me five dollars, which I wouldn’t do it for less than fifteen.
Synonyms of fifteen
- XV
- 15
Forms of fifteen
| Numeral | |
|---|---|
| ordinal | fifteenth |
| alternative form (obsolete) | fiveteen |
| alternative form (obsolete) | fifteene |
| Noun | |
| plural | fifteens |
Origin of fifteen
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *fimftehun Anglian Old English fīftīene Middle English fiftene English fifteen From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.
Words formed from fifteen
Phrases with fifteen
Words that rhyme with fifteen
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about fifteen
- What does fifteen mean?
- Fifteen means the cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
- What is fifteen in Hindi?
- Fifteen in Hindi is पंद्रह (pandrah). See Fifteen meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fifteen?
- Fifteen can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fifteen?
- Fifteen is pronounced /ˈfɪf.tiːn/ (UK).
Words near fifteen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fifteen (page history and authors); পনৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors); पन्ध्र (Nepali) (page history and authors); پنځلس (Pashto) (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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