nineteenth

Pluralnineteenths

1. 1
   adjective

   Coming after the eighteenth in a counted sequence; the ordinal form corresponding to the number nineteen.

   The author's nineteenth novel topped the bestseller list this month.

   They celebrated the company's nineteenth anniversary with a small party.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   The person or thing occupying the nineteenth position in a sequence or ranking.

   As the nineteenth in the royal line, he never expected to rule.

   The panel interviewed candidates all day, and the nineteenth finally impressed them.

3. 3
   nouncountable

   One part out of nineteen equal parts into which a whole is divided.

   The estate was split nineteen ways, so each heir inherited a nineteenth.

   Roughly a nineteenth of the annual budget went toward building repairs.

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