Associations to the word «Fifteenth»

Wiktionary

FIFTEENTH, adjective. The ordinal form of the number fifteen.
FIFTEENTH, noun. The person or thing in the fifteenth position.
FIFTEENTH, noun. One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.

Dictionary definition

FIFTEENTH, noun. Position 15 in a countable series of things.
FIFTEENTH, adjective. Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth 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