nineteenth
adjective/naɪnˈtiːnθ/
Frequency rank: #5,627 most common English word
Meaning
Coming after the eighteenth in a sequence; the ordinal number for nineteen.
Example sentence
My grandmother was born in the nineteenth century, when life was very different from today.
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