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fifteen
[ fif-teen ]
noun
- a cardinal number, ten plus five.
- a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 15 in number.
Fifteen
1/ ˈɪˈپː /
noun
- the Fifteenhistory the Jacobite rising of 1715
fifteen
2/ ˈɪˈپː /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and five
- a numeral, 15, XV, etc, representing this number
- something represented by, representing, or consisting of 15 units
- a rugby union football team
determiner
- amounting to fifteen
fifteen jokes
- ( as pronoun )
fifteen of us danced
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fifteen1
Example Sentences
Before I became a full-time writer twelve years ago, I worked in social change and racial justice for close to fifteen years.
That is down from September 2004, when it had about 10,200 employees, a decrease of about fifteen percent, even though the economy is nearly fifty percent larger.
In total, fifteen Together At Christmas services will take place around the country, including at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and Blackpool Tower Circus.
He was gifted with a superhuman taste sensitivity: He could easily distinguish a flavor at one ten thousandth of a gram in a fifteen ton batch.
More than 3.2 million people remain without power throughout Florida and evacuation orders have been in place for 7.2 million people in fifteen Florida counties.
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How Do You Spell Fifteen?
Spelling tips for fifteen
The word fifteen is hard to spell because it doesn’t simply combine the spelling of the base number, five, with the suffix -teen, as is done in other easy-to-remember spellings like fourteen and sixteen.
How to spell fifteen: When five is combined with suffixes, the ve is turned into an f: fifteen (not fiveteen), fifty (not fivety), and fifth (not fiveth). Remember: there’s no v in fifteen.
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