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NINETEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("nineteen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Derivation:
nineteen (being one more than eighteen)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than eighteen
Synonyms:
19; nineteen; xix
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Derivation:
nineteen (the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one)
Context examples:
A moment later he emerged, a heavy-set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villainous countenance, trailing at his heels.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt’s revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting,—instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more calm and sober judgment she had determined on,—she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments, entering on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Her disposition and abilities were equally worthy of all that friendship could do; and at eighteen or nineteen she was, as far as such an early age can be qualified for the care of children, fully competent to the office of instruction herself; but she was too much beloved to be parted with.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Every nineteen hours.
(Every Nineteen Hours, NCI Thesaurus)
They knew not each other's opinion, either its constancy or its change, on the one leading point of Anne's conduct, for the subject was never alluded to; but Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I have a score of one hundred and nineteen pounds of wax against the holy Andrew, and, as he was a very just man, I doubt not that I shall have full weigh and measure when I have most need of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How can I, a man not yet thirty, take out with me to India a girl of nineteen, unless she be married to me?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From nineteen they were already reduced to fifteen, two others were wounded, and one at least—the man shot beside the gun—severely wounded, if he were not dead.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Which side won the last match, Teddy?" inquired Jo, who persisted in feeling an interest in manly sports despite her nineteen years.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
