Fifteen

noun, num

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than fourteen wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut. Ireland, plural
  2. 2
    the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16). cardinal

    "The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.

Etymology 2

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.

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