Topic: NUMBERS
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | nigontiene, from nigon 'nine' + tien 'ten' |
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nine‧teen
1HMN the number 19 : It was nineteen minutes past seven. I was only nineteen (=19 years old).
It was nineteen minutes past seven.I was only nineteen (=19 years old).2 if you talk nineteen to the dozen, you talk very quickly and without stopping
nineteen to the dozen
—nineteenth adjective, pronoun: in the nineteenth century her nineteenth birthday
in the nineteenth centuryher nineteenth birthday
