eighteenth

[ ey-teenth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventeenth; being the ordinal number for 18.
2. being one of 18 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighteenth part, especially of one (1/18).
2. the eighteenth member of a series.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eighteenth¹

before 900; Middle English eightenthe, eightethe, Old English eahtatēotha. See eighteen + -th ²

Example Sentences

They also hope to push their estimates further back in time by examining wood samples from trees that were cut down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

From Popular-Science

In the photo, Sherman stands, dressed in an elaborate embroidered velvet frock coat and vest from the late eighteenth century.

From The Daily Beast

Eighteenth-ranked Michigan might be 8-4, but its road record is 1-4.

From The Daily Beast

I can't rebuild my apartment on the fifth floor while you keep your apartment on the eighteenth floor just as it is.

From The Daily Beast

William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination.

From The Daily Beast

When they took us for the march,” Pearl goes on, “it was our birthday: January eighteenth.

From The Daily Beast

The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

From Project Gutenberg

They gave a sort of daring unconscious eighteenth-century coquetry to what was otherwise a somewhat severe style of beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

The mixture was washed on the eighteenth of the said month, and a small grain of gold, weighing one-half real, was obtained.

From Project Gutenberg

In England the violin makers in the beginning of the eighteenth century, mostly copied the pattern and model of Steiner.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Eighteenth Century repairs and additions were made by the celebrated Cliquot.

From Project Gutenberg