Crossword clues for fourteen
fourteen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourteen \Four"teen`\, a. [OE. fourtene, feowertene, AS. fe['o]wert[=y]ne, fe['o]wert[=e]ne. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Forty.] Four and ten more; twice seven.
Fourteen \Four"teen`\, n.
The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old English feowertyne; see four + -teen. Compare Old Saxon fiertein, Old Frisian fiuwertine, Dutch veertien, Old High German fiorzehan, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten, Gothic fidwortaihun.
Wiktionary
num. The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.
WordNet
adj. being one more than thirteen [syn: 14, xiv]
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one [syn: 14, XIV]
Wikipedia
Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed at Arthur Maitland's Theatre, San Francisco, in 1919 and originally published in the February 1920 issue of The Drama magazine. It is now a public domain work and may be performed without royalties.
Usage examples of "fourteen".
The wistful tone in his voice did him great credit: Most boys of fourteen, faced with the prospect of twelve years of responsibility for a minor sister, would feel more than mild regret.
Fourteen years earlier, it had been Adams who called on the Continental Congress to make the tall Virginian commander-in-chief of the army.
When it was said he deserved to be known as the father of the American navy, Adams answered that he was father of enough as it was, with two sons, fourteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren, all of whom required his attention and support.
That meant the Archerfish had to close to within fourteen kilometers of Moe before launching the eight boat.
You will die of a heart attack, the aorta will be closed by a globule of the arteriosclerotic matter coating your veins, at nine-twenty-one PM, exactly one year, nine months and fourteen days from now.
There had been fourteen left, Askari had said, after she had killed the one on the cliff face.
Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.
When she was fourteen years old, a woman, but not old enough to be entered, the Koperasi raided Bu Awan and took her away.
Lord Middlethorpe, who had just consulted his pocket watch, it was precisely six minutes after eleven in the evening, and Susannah Ballister knew quite well that the day was Thursday and the date was January the twenty-seventh, the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.
His losses in the battles of Saturday and Sunday had amounted to seventeen thousand one hundred and ninety-seven killed and wounded and missing, fourteen pieces of artillery, and twenty thousand stand of arms.
It named four battleships, including the Iowa and the New Jersey, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and fourteen destroyers.
And fourteen years later, Father Berrendo had taken Megan to the Abbey Cistercian, j So many years after that, this stranger was looking for her.
Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen Betsey Cavalierre and I returned to Hazelwood and the mountains of grunt work that still had to be done there.
The fourteen waste treatment plants in New York City produced more than a thousand tons of biosolids a day and sold it throughout the country as fertilizer.
We were on Calle 44, near La Perfidiosa, the blacklight inferno dancehall where I hung when I was fourteen, looking for tourists to rob.