nineteenth

«nineteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: Nineteenth tells the place number 19 in order, like the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, number (nineteenth); noun (a nineteenth, nineteenths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Nineteenth tells the place number 19 in order, like the nineteenth runner to finish. tree →

2) A nineteenth is one of nineteen equal parts of something (1/19). tree →

3) «The nineteenth century» is the hundred years we call the 1800s. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a position in an order or a line, not an amount; written 19th; as a fraction, 1/19. In everyday life: birthdays and floors («the nineteenth floor»). In history and stories: «the nineteenth century», the time of steam trains and Queen Victoria.

examples

• She was the nineteenth in line. tree →
• On the nineteenth page there is a map. tree →
• He finished nineteenth in the race. tree →
• They live on the nineteenth floor. tree →
• Steam trains spread in the nineteenth century. tree →
• Each pupil got one nineteenth of the cake. tree →
• Today is her nineteenth birthday. tree →
• The nineteenth question was the hardest. tree →
• It has been preserved in no less than five versions (or six, including Macpherson's "Darthula") ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. tree →

note

A place in order, not a count of things. Trap: «the nineteenth in line» means 18 are in front. Written 19th. Trap: «the nineteenth century» is the 1800s, not the 1900s (century number = first two digits + 1). «A nineteenth of» means divide by 19.

In the corpora

• the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel;
• For the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

Trees and pragmatics

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