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• Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.From the entry Abijah
• Hanswurst, on the other hand, gained a specific profile in the early eighteenth century.2015, Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White, editors, Food and Theatre on the World Stage, Routledge, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry Hanswurst
• At the end of the eighteenth century, French opera composers like A.2014, Peter Wegele, Max Steiner: Composing, Casablanca, and the Golden Age of Film Music. From the entry chiffre
• This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing). From the entry craftspersonship
• By the end of the eighteenth century, the population of the Urianhai frontier numbered roughly forty thousand.1999, B. Batbayar, quoting Council of Ministers, “Russia and China Respond”, in Sukhjargalmaa Dugersuren, S. Burenbayar, Khulan Khashbat…. From the entry Uliastai
• Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. From the entry antisugar
• All but two of these primigravidas were pregnant before their eighteenth birthday.1975, María-Luisa Urdaneta, “Fertility and the ‘Pill’ in a Texas Barrio”, in Stanley R. Ingman, Anthony E. Thomas, editors, Topias and…. From the entry primigravida
• The first element of iron manufacture that changed in the eighteenth century was the fuel.1974, James D[aniel] Hardy, Jr.; Arthur J. Slavin, “An Era of Revolution”, in Boyd H. Hill, Jr., editor, The Western World: The…. From the entry metalwright
• In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62. From the entry chocolate
• In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 58. From the entry celery
• In the eighteenth century hemlock was used for treating cancer, syphilis, and ulcers.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113. From the entry hemlock
• The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.2015, Joe Painter, “Power”, in John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, Joanne Sharp, editors, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to…. From the entry biopower
• Until the late eighteenth century, it was normal to have ad hoc and often short-term holding of PoWs.2013, Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr, “Prisoner of War Archaeology”, in Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr, editors, Prisoners of War: Archaeology…. From the entry pow
• But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century.2009, Eric Slauter, The State as a Work of Art, Chicago, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry famously
• He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the "prince of puff".2008, David Paton-Williamspage, Katterfelto, page xii. From the entry puff
• Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.2005, Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner, “The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy”, in Michael R.…. From the entry king's ransom
• Despite the decline of Indian slavery, throughout the eighteenth century South Carolina newspapers frequently advertised for runaway Indian and Afro-Indian slaves.2003, Jayme A. Sokolow, The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry Afro-Indian
• In general, however, the major salonnières of the eighteenth century came from a broader and less exclusive background.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 178. From the entry salonnière
• Born at the end of the eighteenth century, Nicolas Point dreamed of becoming a missionary to native peoples.2001, Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, Different Travellers, Different Eyes, page 61. From the entry Grandma Moses
• It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century.1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, page 66. From the entry two-up
• An English countryman of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century would be amazed to see how smocking has changed today.1985, Allyne S. Holland, “Smocking Traditions”, in Treasury of Smocking Designs (Dover Needlework Series), New York, N.Y.: Dover…. From the entry smocking
• Denmark's currency during the eighteenth century is somewhat involved.1948, The Numismatist, volume 61, page 572. From the entry speciedaler
• The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.1938, Mason Long, Poetry and its Forms. From the entry odic
• However, like many other tolerantist Christians of the early eighteenth century, Peter did not extend his toleration to the Jesuits or Jews.2016, Gary M. Hamburg, Russia's Path toward Enlightenment, →ISBN. From the entry tolerantist
• The liquidation of the Albanian Catholicosate was long sought by Armenian Catholicoses, especially by Simeon Erevantsi in the second half of the eighteenth century.2015, Kamala Imranli-Lowe, “Reconstruction of the 'Armenian Homeland' Notion”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 51, number 4, →DOI, page…. From the entry catholicosate
• I was telling them only the other day about pregnant women avoiding the Drop in the eighteenth century by pleading the belly.2013, M.J. Trow, Maxwell's Chain, Allison & Busby, →ISBN. From the entry plead the belly
• The European eighteenth century saw the establishment and expansion of two important and interlinked entities: the British Empire and the systematizing of nature.2003, Sarah Jordan, The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-century British Literature and Culture, Bucknell University Press…. From the entry systematize
• In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 195. From the entry instantiate
• The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester…. From the entry Fujianese
• Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 273. From the entry eyebright
• Some worker confréries, such as those of the carpenters, hatmakers, polishers, and secondhand clothes dealers, tried to obtain formal legitimation in the eighteenth century.1996, Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775, page 269. From the entry confrerie
• In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Scots had a drink which they called molass, a fierce rumlike spirit distilled from molasses.1994, John Ayto, A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink from A to Z, page 222. From the entry molass
• The cottage now belonged to Emma's mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel.1980, Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry emma
• At the beginning of the eighteenth century these complex designs, inspired by silks from the Far East, required immense care in weaving.1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 108-109. From the entry drawboy
• The tincture of the gold known as Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold had a wide reputation in the eighteenth century as an aphrodisiac stimulant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234. From the entry potable gold
• Hatred of baroque pretentiosity and the feeling that the ode-writers aspired too high produced many parodic odes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1949, Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, page 638. From the entry pretentiosity
• Bright enamel is a feature of posies around the late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, with darker enamels continuing into the eighteenth century on memento moris like this example.2021, Jo Ahmet, 50 Finds From Kent: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry memento mori
• By the late eighteenth century, the nearby city of Naples was a goal for every educated traveler, and a visit to Capri a high point of every Grand Tour.2011, Tony Perrottet, The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry grand tour
• In the eighteenth century, blank places on a map became a symbol of rigorous standards and lent authority to all on the map that was unblank (Turchi, Maps, 37).2006, Michael D.C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, →ISBN. From the entry unblank
• From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London…. From the entry Yorùbá

Meaning of eighteenth

1. adjective The ordinal form of the number eighteen.
2. noun The person or thing in the eighteenth position.
3. noun One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.

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How do you use eighteenth in a sentence?

Eighteenth is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.”

What is a short sentence with eighteenth?

“Denmark's currency during the eighteenth century is somewhat involved.”

What does eighteenth mean?

Eighteenth means the ordinal form of the number eighteen.