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fourteener

fourteener noun: a mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.

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 fourteener

pluralfourteeners

Origin of fourteener

From fourteen + -er.

Questions about fourteener

What does fourteener mean?
Fourteener means a mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
What part of speech is fourteener?
Fourteener is a noun.
What is the plural of fourteener?
The plural of fourteener is fourteeners.

Words near fourteener in the dictionary

  1. foursquares
  2. Fourstones
  3. fourteen
  4. fourteen hundred
  5. Fourteen Words
  6. fourteener
  7. fourteeners
  8. fourteenfold
  9. fourteenish
  10. fourteenness
  11. fourteenpence

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