fifteen
the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,577 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,565 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one also: 15, XV
adjective
- being one more than fourteen also: 15, xv
fifteen in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But at fifteen she had lost her mother.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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A city at the mouth of the Tiber, fifteen miles from Rome.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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I am a poor man, and have thirty children, fifteen of whom .
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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She knew as certainly as if the fifteen seniors had told her that Floyd would be "tapped for Bones."
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1