Nine"teen` (?), a. [AS. nigontne, nigontne. See Nine, and Ten.]

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

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Nine"teen`, n.

1. The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

2. A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.

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