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How to pronounce eighteenth

IPA transcription: [eɪ'tinθ]

Pronunciation variants: [eɪ'tinθ]['eɪ'tinθ]

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Noun

  • position 18 in a countable series of things

Adjective

  • 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.