eighteenth
IPA: eɪtˈinθ
noun
- The person or thing in the eighteenth position.
- One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.
- (informal) A party to celebrate an eighteenth birthday.
adjective
- The ordinal form of the number eighteen.
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Examples of "eighteenth" in Sentences
- Keanu will be playing a samurai swordsman in eighteenth century Japan.
- Why did men of rank in eighteenth-century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels?
- [28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211).
- Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth-century wealthy families?
- The first thing to do was to cultivate the foreign example; and with that what we call the eighteenth century began.
- The Marquis: Inferno - Gotta love Guy Davis 'writing and drawing a weirdly-masked vigilante fighting demons in eighteenth-century France.
- If we are not deceived in that hope, if the art of to-day has really come alive out of the slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century, it will surely grow and gather strength and draw to it other forms of intellect and hope that now scarcely know it; and then, whatever changes it may go through, it will at the last be victorious, and bring abundant content to mankind.
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