fourteenths
- 1Plural of fourteenth.
The prize money was split into fourteenths, one for each member of the crew.
Only two fourteenths of the original survey responses were usable.
Note
Only the noun uses of the ordinal take an -s. The adjective never does, so it is the fourteenth floor however many buildings you count. Most plurals come from the fraction sense: three fourteenths, fourteenths of an inch. Musicians also speak of fourteenths for intervals spanning an octave and a seventh. The ranked-position sense is rarely pluralized, since only one thing stands fourteenth at a time.
fourteenths is a form of fourteenth
fourteenth, noun: The person or thing occupying position fourteen in a sequence or order. Full entry
- Forms
- fourteenthfourteenths plural
- Spelling
- fourteenth → fourteenths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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