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nineteen

UK/ˈnaɪntiːn//ˈnaɪnˌtin/

nineteen numeral: the cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

nineteen: the cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as...
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Numeral

nineteen

  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
    • She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.1997, Swan Dive, “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive

nineteen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

nineteen in Hindi

cardinal number
उन्नीस unnīs

nineteen in Tamil

nineteen
பத்தொன்பது pattoṉpatu

nineteen in Marathi

nineteen
एकोणीस ekoṇīs

nineteen in Urdu

cardinal number
انیس unnīs
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nineteen in Bengali
উনিশ uniś
nineteen in Telugu
పంతొమ్మిది pantommidi
nineteen in Malayalam
പത്തൊമ്പത് pattompatŭ
nineteen in Kannada
ಹತ್ತೊಂಬತ್ತು hattombattu
nineteen in Punjabi
ਉੱਨੀ unnī
nineteen in Gujarati
ઓગણીસ ogaṇīs
nineteen in Odia
ଉଣେଇଶ uṇeiśa
nineteen in Sanskrit
ऊनविंशति ūnaviṃśati, नवदश návadaśa
nineteen in Sinhala
දහනවය dahanawaya
nineteen in Assamese
ঊনৈছ unois
nineteen in Nepali
उन्नाईस unnāīs
nineteen in Pashto
نولس nulas
nineteen in Tagalog
labinsiyam
nineteen in Arabic
تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ tisʕata ʕašara
nineteen in Malay
sembilan belas, sepuluh sembilan, satu puluh sembilan
nineteen in Indonesian
sembilan belas
nineteen in Persian
نوزده nuzdah
nineteen in Thai
สิบเก้า sìp-gâao
nineteen in Vietnamese
mười chín
nineteen in Myanmar
ဆယ့်ကိုး hcai.kui:
Dhivehi
ނަވާރަ navāra, އޮނަވިހި onavihi
Dzongkha
བཅུ་དགུ bcu dgu

Examples of nineteen in a sentence

  • You're turning nineteen tomorrow? I hope you have a good one!
  • He was talking nineteen to the dozen; it was almost impossible to follow what he was saying.
  • At the age of nineteen, my grandfather went to war.

All 39 example sentences with nineteen

Forms of nineteen

alternative form19
alternative formXIX

Origin of nineteen

From Middle English nyntene, nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten. Equivalent to nine + -teen

Words formed from nineteen

Phrases with nineteen

Words that rhyme with nineteen

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Questions about nineteen

What does nineteen mean?
Nineteen means the cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
What is nineteen in Hindi?
Nineteen in Hindi is उन्नीस (unnīs). See Nineteen meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nineteen?
Nineteen is a numeral.
How do you pronounce nineteen?
Nineteen is pronounced /ˈnaɪntiːn/ (UK).

Words near nineteen in the dictionary

  1. nines
  2. ninescore
  3. ninesies
  4. ninesome
  5. ninesomes
  6. nineteen
  7. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  8. nineteen hand
  9. nineteen hands
  10. nineteen hundred
  11. nineteen hundreds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nineteen (page history and authors); பத்தொன்பது (Tamil) (page history and authors); एकोणीस (Marathi) (page history and authors); ঊনৈছ (Assamese) (page history and authors); उन्नाईस (Nepali) (page history and authors); نولس (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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