Definitions for nineteen

nineteen nine·teen

Spelling: [nahyn-teen]
IPA: /ˈnaɪnˈtin/

Nineteen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in nineteen (eeeinnnt).

Definitions for nineteen

noun

  1. a cardinal number, ten plus nine.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 19 or XIX.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.

Idioms

  1. talk nineteen to the dozen, to talk very rapidly or vehemently:

adjective

  1. amounting to nineteen in number.

Origin of nineteen

before 1000; Middle English nintene, Old English nigontȳne. See nine, -teen

Examples for nineteen

The nurses of this hospital are all young,—ranging, say, from nineteen to four and twenty.

He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Here I am, played here for nineteen years, I'm the one who stayed.

"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.

I tell myself not to feel bad because my life expectancy is eighty-six, which means I have nineteen more years of life.

This broad pledge was so well kept that at the age of nineteen he was made a partner.

He had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.

He was not without hopes of pleasing—what young man of nineteen or twenty is?

But they did accomplish the journey, and that in nineteen days.

The House divided and the government were left in a minority of nineteen.

Word Value for nineteen
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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