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eighteenth

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Word definitions for eighteenth in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eighteenth \Eight"eenth`\, n. The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions. The eighth after the tenth.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coming next after the seventeenth in position [syn: 18th ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., egtetenþe , modified, by influence of eighteen , from Old English eahtateoða ; from eight + teoða "tenth" (see -ty (1)). Cognate with German achtzehnte , Danish attende , Swedish adertonde .

Usage examples of eighteenth.

The whole middle expanse of Asia was not academically conquered for Orientalism until, during the later eighteenth century, Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit.

Emily Moseley had just completed her eighteenth year, and was gifted by nature with a vivacity and ardency of feeling that gave a heightened zest to the enjoyments of that happy age.

Did time and space allow, there is much to be told on the romantic side of chocolate, of its divine origin, of the bloody wars and brave exploits of the Spaniards who conquered Mexico and were the first to introduce cacao into Europe, tales almost too thrilling to be believed, of the intrigues of the Spanish Court, and of celebrities who met and sipped their chocolate in the parlours of the coffee and chocolate houses so fashionable in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

These tribes the Jesuits on many occasions attempted to civilize, but almost entirely without success, as the long record of the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries in the Chaco proves, as well as the gradual abandonment of their missions there, towards the second half of the eighteenth century.

Wanda Colcannon lived on West Eighteenth Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century there lived a daimio, called Asano Takumi no Kami, the Lord of the castle of Ako, in the province of Harima.

The Platzl, these ethnically German restaurants became popular in the late eighteenth century, often rivaling much older and established eating houses.

She was just on her eighteenth year, and so far had escaped the connoisseurs.

Frederick had his good and his bad qualities, like all great men, but when every deduction on the score of his failings has been made, he still remains the noblest figure in the eighteenth century.

The elaborate ruins of Dhlo Dhlo and Khami, of Niekerk and Inyanga and Penhalonga, even the last levels of Mapungubwe, all belong to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: while the Mambo line of Ba-Rozwi rulers which had established itself at Great Zimbabwe in the first years of the seventeenth century would continue into the first decades of the nineteenth.

If he was a bit of an antiquary, he probably added that, in the eighteenth century, jargoon stones were supposed to be actually an inferior sort of diamond.

France filched Italian joinery in the Renaissance, Flemish marquetry in the seventeenth century, English mahogany styles in the eighteenth and so on.

Saturday the eighteenth, old Rua Te Kahu sat on the crest of a hill that rose in an unbroken curve above his native village.

Tymal stood beside the eight remaining squad leaders of Fortieth Company, as Konen stood beside those of Thirty-second Company, and Kastyn did beside those of Eighteenth Company.

Following in his footsteps came Sebastiani, at the end of the century, and Keiser at the commencement of the eighteenth.