Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ordinal number matching the number 19 in a series.
- n. One of 19 equal parts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Next in order or rank after the eighteenth: an ordinal numeral: as, the nineteenth time.
- Being one of nineteen: as, a nineteenth part.
- n. A nineteenth part; the quotient of unity divided by nineteen.
- n. In music, the interval, whether melodic or harmonic, between any tone and a tone two octaves and a fifth distant from it; also, a tone distant by such an interval from a given tone.
- n. In organ-building, a stop whose pitch is two octaves and a fifth above that of the keys used, as, for example, the larigot.
Wiktionary
- adj. The ordinal form of number nineteen.
- n. The person or thing in the nineteenth position.
- n. One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
- adj. Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
- n. The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
- n. The next in order after the eighteenth.
- n. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. position 19 in a countable series of things
- adj. coming next after the eighteenth in position
Examples
“The Mistress of Nothing (2009), takes its inspiration from the life of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, and is set in nineteenth-century Egypt.”
“The place doesn't feel modern, but I couldn't really believe I was in nineteenth century New England.”
“Paul Rock (2004) “Victims, prosecutors and the State in nineteenth century England and Wales,” Criminal Justice, Vol. 4, No. 4, 331 – 354 (2004).”
“Jane Eyre (Ch. 12) "Shirley" is a powerful indictment of the position of women in nineteenth-century England.”
“The Doctor, Ace, and Bernice Summerfield, in nineteenth-century London, get mixed up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; and all five of them are then confronted with an invasion of Earth by the forces of Azathoth from the planet Ry'leh (sic).”
“Hans Nielsen Hauge was a reformer in nineteenth-century Norway when the state church there was getting pretty moribund.”
“If ever you want to read a fine readable fictional account of day to day life in nineteenth-century London look no further, you can almost see, hear and smell it on every page of The Nether World.”
“Gender-related discourses and representations of cultural specificity in nineteenth-century Greece'.”
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
“Engendering "Greekness": Women's emancipation and irredentist politics in nineteenth-century Greece'.”
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
“The relationship between those two political communities was conditioned by inequalities, ambiguities, and inconsistencies characterizing colonial encounters elsewhere in nineteenth-century India, and beyond.”
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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Pull out the stops
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diapason, clarabella, dulciana, bourdon, reed stop, flue stop, violoncello, suabe flute, waldflute, rackett, pyramidon, querflöte and 106 more...
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