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Fourteen

//ˈfɔɹ.tin// num

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Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than thirteen wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen.

    "[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records."

Etymology

From Middle English fourtene, from Old English fēowertīene, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Cognate with West Frisian fjirtjin, Dutch veertien, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten. Equivalent to four + -teen.

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