fifteen

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"Mrs. Chilcote's maid said that the carriage was ordered for ten-fifteen, and she hoped that would suit you."

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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 14 + 1.
  2. noun The 15th in a set or sequence.

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  • It was ten-fifteen, and she was supposed to have met her friends at the clinic at eight. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • ;Request that you set bail Bail is set at fifteen thousand dollars After setting a trial date, the judge called a fifteen-minute recess. —  In His Own Defense
  • Some of the tailings were diverted to a spur conveyor, run through a crusher, and then used as the raw material for the fifteen-centimeter thick walls of the tunnel. —  ISAAC ASIMOV'S
  • At four-fifteen, Alan stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets and strode out to the waiting room to greet his next patient, Kendal Green, a fragile woman who was not only battling self-doubt but also enduring a vicious custody fight for her two young children. —  RemoteControl
  • He was fifteen, and was in a training class above me so I hadn't really met him to talk to. —  XXXX
 

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  1. Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftēne; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fiftene, from Anglo-Saxon fiftēne, fifty¯ne = Old Saxon fīftein = OFries. fiftine, fitene = Dutch vijftien = Middle Low German viftein, viftēn, Low German feftein, föftein = Old High German fimfzehan, finfzehan, Middle High German finfzehen, vünfzehen, German fünfzehn = Icelandic fimmtān = Norwegian femtan = Swedish femton = Danish femten = Goth, fimftaihun = Latin quindecim = Greek πεντε(καί)δεκα = Sanskrit panchadaça; from Anglo-Saxon fīf, etc., five, + tēn, ty¯n, etc., ten: see five and ten.
 

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