15th
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Abbreviation of fifteenth. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
"Ms. Sheinbaum will legislate from buildings in downtown Mexico City near the Palace of the Inquisition, where crypto-Jews—a term used to describe Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity by the Spanish crown in the 15th century but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy—were tortured during the colonial period."
- 1 coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position wordnet
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More examples"Ms. Sheinbaum will legislate from buildings in downtown Mexico City near the Palace of the Inquisition, where crypto-Jews—a term used to describe Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity by the Spanish crown in the 15th century but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy—were tortured during the colonial period."
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