See Also: nineteenth(dictionary)
nineteenth hole(dictionary)
Nineteenth Hole - Golf(gambling)

nineteenth (iou)



nineteenth adjective & noun (ordinal numeral).

A. adjective. Next in order after the eighteenth, that is number nineteen in a series, (represented by 19th). OE.
the nineteenth hole slang (the bar-room in) a golf clubhouse.
b. noun.
The nineteenth person or thing of a category, series, etc., identified contextually, as day of the month, (following a proper name) person, esp. monarch or pope, of the specified name, etc. LME.
Music. An interval embracing nineteen notes on the diatonic scale; a note a nineteenth above another given note; a chord of two notes a nineteenth apart. L16.
Each of nineteen equal parts into which something is or may be divided, a fraction which when multiplied by nineteen gives one. E17.
Comb.: Forming compound ordinal numerals with multiples of a hundred, as three-hundred-and-nineteenth (319th), five-thousand-and-nineteenth (5019th), etc.
nineteenthly adverb in the nineteenth place L17.