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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nineteen
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talk nineteen to the dozen
▪ Everybody except Jurnet clapped, still talking nineteen to the dozen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nineteen

Nineteen \Nine"teen`\, a. [AS. nigont[=y]ne, nigont[=e]ne. See Nine, and Ten.] Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Nineteen

Nineteen \Nine"teen`\, n.

  1. The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

  2. A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nineteen

late Old English nigontene (Anglian), nigontyne (West Saxon); see nine + -teen.

Wiktionary
nineteen

num. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

WordNet
nineteen
  1. adj. being one more than eighteen [syn: 19, xix]

  2. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one [syn: 19, XIX]

Wikipedia
Nineteen (film)

or Naintiin is a 1987 Japanese science fiction film directed by Kensho Yamashita, who later directed the 1994 film Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla. Like that 1994 movie, this one was produced by Toho Company, Limited. This is a teen idol film.

Nineteen (song)

"Nineteen" is a song written by Tom Hambridge, Jeffrey Steele, and Gary Nicholson. The song was originally recorded by Waycross, whose version peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in July 2007. Taylor Hicks later recorded the song on his 2009 album The Distance, although his version of the song was not released as a single. It was then recorded by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus, on his album I'm American, which was released on June 28, 2011. Cyrus' version of the song was released as the album's second single on September 26, 2011. Clayton Bellamy also recorded it on his 2012 album Everyone's a Dreamer.

Usage examples of "nineteen".

It was terrible in the nineteen thirties, the Depression was on and people were so poor, especially Aboriginal people.

Their origins are a matter of record, in the merger nineteen years ago of the depraved Temple of Abraxas with a discredited house of surgical software, Frewin Maisang Tobermory.

This long letter, written in a bold, flowing hand on a 489 Nineteen hundred and forty-four dozen sheets of bright-blue airmail paper, contained all sorts of information about European people, places and corporations known to Cyrus.

Leaving this place, we entered the next gaming-hall, when our man again bet nineteen dollars alce on the first card.

Again he won, and we went the length of the street, Runt wagering nineteen dollars alce on the first card for ten consecutive times without losing a bet.

In 1849 Miss Mitchell was asked by the late Admiral Davis, who had just taken charge of the American Nautical Almanac, to act as computer for that work,--a proposition to which she gladly assented, and for nineteen years she held that position in addition to her other duties.

The Campus had been active just over nineteen months, and that time had mostly been spent in establishing their cover as a trading and arbitrage business.

CHAPTER NINETEEN I crossed the River Arend, the traditional border between Arendia and Tolnedra, early one morning in late spring.

He also mentions the instance of congenital atresia of the vagina with hernia of both ovaries into the left groin in a servant of twenty, and the case of an imperforate vagina in a girl of nineteen with an undeveloped uterus.

So has the research into therapeutic touch that Sister Justa Smith, Clive Bakster, and Dolores Krieger pioneered in the nineteen sixties.

He suddenly recalled that Schliemann, the discov- erer of Troy, had married a Greek girl of nineteen at the age of forty-seven.

For, lest any scruple of doubt should arise in their hearts, he revived, in the sight of all, nineteen men who had been dead and buried in their graves, one of whom, named Fotus, had lain in his narrow house for the space of ten years.

So if I was lucky enough to have nineteen straight gigs in nineteen straight days, I played nineteen straight gigs in nineteen straight days.

Nineteen, she was, yet through her man she had been leading her tribe of gitanos for over two years, and leading them with an iron will, leading them well.

Charles asked her why she had waited until the age of nineteen to study writing.