fifteenths
Sayfif-TEENTHS/ˌfɪfˈtiːnθs/
- 1Plural of fifteenth.
Adding two fifteenths to three fifteenths gives one third of the whole.
Historians traced the heavy fifteenths levied on northern towns during the long war.
Note
Only the noun can take this -s. The ordinal adjective, as in the fifteenth day, never does. The plural most often counts fractions, where the number in front says how many equal parts are meant: two fifteenths, three fifteenths. It can also gather the people or things in fifteenth place across several series, or name the musical interval of two octaves more than once.
fifteenths is a form of fifteenth
fifteenth, noun: Whoever or whatever holds the fifteenth position in a sequence or ranking. Full entry
- Forms
- fifteenthfifteenths plural
- Spelling
- fifteenth → fifteenths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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