fifteenth

«fifteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: number 15 in order — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, noun (fifteenth, 15th; a fifteenth, fifteenths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fifteenth means number 15 in order. tree →

2) A fifteenth is one of 15 equal parts, written 1/15. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a place in order (14 come before), or a fraction 1/15; everyday life: the fifteenth floor, the fifteenth birthday

examples

• He was fifteenth in line. tree →
• On the fifteenth day she finished the book. tree →
• How many people are ahead of the fifteenth? tree →
• One fifteenth of 30 is 2. tree →
• Her fifteenth birthday is next year. tree →
• The office is on the fifteenth floor. tree →
• On the fifteenth day the duke sent for the dwarf and presented him to the prince. tree →

note

An order position: 14 come before. Trap: do not use 15 as an amount. Short form 15th.

In the corpora

• And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
• to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
• the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer;
• For the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
• So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fifteenth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.