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fifteensome

fifteensome noun: a group of fifteen people or things.

Noun

fifteensome (plural fifteensomes)

  1. (rare) A group of fifteen people or things.
    • It was one of those magical evenings during which our threesome became a fifteensome, including the pianist and Cuban expatriates from Puerto Rico, Mexico the U.S.1998, George Jacunski Guiteras, “A Return to Cuba”, in Assembly, volume 57, page 23
    • There would be an excellent chance that all of us would be in one hollering, protesting, club-slinking fifteensome, betting $800 million.2015, Dan Jenkins, The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN

Forms of fifteensome

pluralfifteensomes

Origin of fifteensome

From fifteen + -some.

Questions about fifteensome

What does fifteensome mean?
Fifteensome means a group of fifteen people or things.
What part of speech is fifteensome?
Fifteensome is a noun.
What is the plural of fifteensome?
The plural of fifteensome is fifteensomes.

Words near fifteensome in the dictionary

  1. fifteenish
  2. fifteenness
  3. fifteenpence
  4. fifteenpenny
  5. fifteens
  6. fifteensome
  7. fifteensomes
  8. fifteenth
  9. fifteenthly
  10. fifteenths
  11. fifth

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