fifteenth

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But the fifteenth is a long way off yet That may be, but it's bound to get here.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number 15 in a series.
  2. noun One of 15 equal parts.

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  • Disaster Movie took seventh place and College took fifteenth, allowing Nicolas Cage stars as a hitman who travels to Bangkok for four assassinations. —  Cinematical
  • As I was looking over the Paulson plan for the fifteenth or sixteenth time (what the hell -- it's only three pages long), I was struck, yet again, by its incredible vagueness. —  BloggingStocks
  • - Filed under: Industry, Financial Crisis As I was looking over the Paulson plan for the fifteenth or sixteenth time (what the hell -- it's only three pages long), I was struck, yet again, by its incredible vagueness. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • "They told me how far I was back - fifteenth or something like that - and it was crazy," said Stewart. —  Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
  • Fourteenth and fifteenth were the two Williams-Toyotas with Kazuki Nakajima outrunning Nico Rosberg on this occasion, which is not a great reflection on the German, as the rebuilt circuit is very different to that which Kazuki would have raced up as a youth. —  Grandprix.com Current News
 

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  1. from Middle English fiftenthe, fiftende, fiftethe, from Anglo-Saxon fifteótha = OFries. f ī ftinda = Dutch vijftiende = Middle Low German vifteinde, Low German fofteinde = Old High German finftazehento, funfzēndo, Middle High German fünfzehende, German fünfzehnte = Icelandic fimmtāndi = Norwegian femtande = Swedish femtonde = Dan, femtende = Gothic (Moesogothic) fimftaihunda, fifteenth; from Anglo-Saxon fifty¯ne, etc., fifteen, + -th, etc., ordinal suffix.
 

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/ˈfɪfˈtinθ/
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