Definition of Fifteenth

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Fifteenth

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.

A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

An interval consisting of two octaves.

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Fifteenth Quotations

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
Dave Barry

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.
Walter Pater

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater

Fifteenth Translations

fifteenth in Italian is quindicesimo
fifteenth in Spanish is decimoquinto
fifteenth in Swedish is femtonde

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