Definitions for nineteens

nineteens nine·teen

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

Nineteens is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in nineteens (eeeinnnst).

Definitions for nineteens

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 nineteens

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

Examples for nineteens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for nineteens
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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