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UK
/fɪftˈiːn/
]
[ US /ˈfɪfˈtin, fɪfˈtin/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪfˈtin, fɪfˈtin/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- being one more than fourteen
NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
How To Use fifteen In A Sentence
- Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork.
- I looked over at the coffee pot, which had been done percolating for a good fifteen minutes.
- I overheard two fifteen year old girls behind me at the ATM planning to get together tomorrow night and eat ice cream and comfort each other when they didn't get any valentines.
- The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
- Fifteen would pay Moroni and save him and Charlie from jail, but fifteen would still leave him and Hank on the breadline. FINAL RESORT
- He founded his own business in the mid 1970s, and by 2004, at least fifteen master artists currently heading their own studios had apprenticed under him.
- Outside of what we term pit and dress circle is a partition, three or four feet high, dividing them from a promenade ten or fifteen feet wide. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
- Fifteen minutes later centre forward Quigg was left free to hammer the ball home from 20 yards.
- Boys go in groups of fifteen to thirty to bush camps, where they stay for ninety to a hundred days to recover from the operation.
- A fifteen year old girl was among the injured.