American English pronunciation
How to pronounce eighteenth
IPA transcription: [eɪ'tinθ]
Pronunciation variants: [eɪ'tinθ]['eɪ'tinθ]
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Noun
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position 18 in a countable series of things
Adjective
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coming next after the seventeenth in position
Usage examples
- In the eighteenth century Scotland reaped the intellectual benefits of this system.
- A wildly exciting time was his during the week preceding Thursday the eighteenth.
- His doctoral dissertation was on mid-eighteenth-century British chamber music.
- The brick parapets date from the late eighteenth century.
- As for preservation of handsaws, twenty-four saws from eighteenth-century England are known to survive.
- The order became extinct in the eighteenth century.
- Up to the eighteenth century, Bombay consisted of several small islands.
- A wildly exciting time was his during the week preceding Thursday the eighteenth.
- Few examples of African art had been collected by Europeans in the eighteenth century.
- It's a film set in eighteenth century Europe.