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14TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the thirteenth in position
Synonyms:
14th; fourteenth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
Other theories for collapse of the colonies have included climate change – the Little Ice Age, a sustained period of lower temperatures, began in the 14th century – as well as unsustainable farming methods and even the Black Death.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
Henry, I find, has some idea of going into Norfolk again upon some business that you approve; but this cannot possibly be permitted before the middle of next week; that is, he cannot anyhow be spared till after the 14th, for we have a party that evening.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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