Associations to the word «Eighteenth»

Wiktionary

EIGHTEENTH, adjective. The ordinal form of the number eighteen.
EIGHTEENTH, noun. The person or thing in the eighteenth position.
EIGHTEENTH, noun. One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.
EIGHTEENTH, noun. (informal) A party to celebrate an eighteenth birthday.

Dictionary definition

EIGHTEENTH, noun. Position 18 in a countable series of things.
EIGHTEENTH, adjective. Coming next after the seventeenth in position.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats