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FOURTEEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

Synonyms:

14; fourteen; XIV

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fourteen" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than thirteen

Synonyms:

14; fourteen; xiv

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Martin added his debts and found that he was possessed of a total credit in all the world of fourteen dollars and eighty-five cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fourteen were different between those with prostate-confined tumors and those with tumors that spread, suggesting these markers may be useful for predicting prognosis, or the cancer’s aggressiveness.

(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)

A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fourteen of these sources are such strong emitters of X-rays that astronomers categorize them as “ultra-luminous X-ray sources,” or ULXs.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The two faint glows are not single objects, but are actually composed of fourteen and ten individual massive galaxies respectively, each within a radius comparable to the distance between the Milky Way and the neighbouring Magellanic Clouds.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

Every fourteen hours.

(Every Fourteen Hours, NCI Thesaurus)

I began to suppose that he had paid the buccaneers a visit while they all lay drunk together round their fire, and I reckoned up with glee that we had only fourteen enemies to deal with.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)