nineteen

• Arabic numerals: 19. Roman symbols: XIX

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.

Equivalent to nine +‎ -teen

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪntiːn/
  • (General American) enPR: nīnʹtēn', IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪnˌtin/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /naɪnˈtiːn/
  • (General American) enPR: nīn'tēnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌnaɪnˈtin/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

nineteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
   • 1997, Swan Dive (lyrics and music), “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive:

     She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.

• (ordinal): nineteenth

• (adj. of the number 19 or a 19-year period): decennoval

• Last: eighteen. Next: twenty