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fourteeners

fourteeners is the plural 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

Questions about fourteeners

What is fourteeners the plural of?
Fourteeners is the plural of fourteener.

Words near fourteeners in the dictionary

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

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