Eighteenth

Definitions: Eighteenth

Eighteenth

Adjective

1. Coming next after the seventeenth in position.

Noun

1. Position 18 in a countable series of things.

Date "eighteenth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Eighteenth

Synonym: 18th (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Eighteenth

English words defined with "eighteenth": 19th ♦ Blue laws ♦ Cob money, Convulsionist ♦ Eighteenth Amendment, Eightetethe ♦ Hymnology ♦ Macco, monotonously ♦ nineteenth ♦ Sandemanian, Smallsword. (references)

Specialty definitions using "eighteenth": Audley ♦ Babes in the Wood ♦ Chubb, consol, consolidated stock ♦ Della Cruscans, Doricourt ♦ Far fetched ♦ Godfrey's Cordial ♦ Howleglass, Hymn Tunes ♦ Improvisators ♦ Kufic Coins ♦ Labadists ♦ Meals, Meg Merrilies, Molly Mog, Moravians, Morocco Men, Mug-house ♦ Parson Adams, Parson Bate ♦ Running Footman ♦ Scowerers, Somerset House ♦ The English Reports. (references)

Etymologies containing "eighteenth": Mechitarist. (references)

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Modern Usage: Eighteenth

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's when someone from the twentieth century wakes up one morning back in the eighteenth century. (Deadly Blessing; writing credit: Glenn M. Benest; Matthew Barr) This is the eighteenth level of the Perkis System. (Heavyweights; writing credit: Judd Apatow; Steven Brill)
Movie/TV Titles	The Eighteenth Angel (1997)
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Commercial Usage: Eighteenth

Domain	Title
References	Eighteenth Bank, Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin Social History of Britain) (reference) Standard Catalog of World Coins: Eighteenth Century 1701-1800 (Standard Catalog of World Coins. Eighteenth Century, 1701 to 1800, 3rd Ed) (reference) The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century (reference) The Summer of the Danes: The Eighteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Studies In Eighteenth Century Culture (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Eighteenth Angel (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Eighteenth Century British Symphonies (reference) Eighteenth Century German & Ne (reference) Eighteenth Street Lounge Soundtracks - Jet Society [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Eighteenth

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Photo Album: Eighteenth

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[An eighteenth century wheelchair] / I. Lindemain sc.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Historic Usage: Eighteenth

Author	Date	Quotation
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-2017	The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. (reference)
Communist Manifesto	1848	Thus, to the German philosophers of the eighteenth century, the demands of the first French Revolution were nothing more than the demands of "Practical Reason" in general, and the utterance of the will of the revolutionary French bourgeoisie signified in their eyes the law of pure Will, of Will as it was bound to be, of true human Will generally. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Eighteenth

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In 1827, Marius had just attained his eighteenth year.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Eighteenth

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The table in Annex I, showing local production, imports and exports of chemical and petrochemical products, was extracted from the eighteenth edition of the annual publication, "Informacion Estadistica de la Industria Petroquimica y Quimica de la Argentina" published by the Instituto Petroquimico Argentino. (references)
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Speeches: Eighteenth

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	Many influences had increasingly complicated and weakened our law enforcement organization long before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Eighteenth

"Eighteenth" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "Eighteenth" is used about 2,033 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Ordinal Number	99.36%	2,020	4,275
Noun (proper)	0.59%	12	101,599
Unclassified Items	0.05%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	2,033	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Eighteenth

Country	Name
Japan	Eighteenth Bank, Limited
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Eighteenth

Expression using "eighteenth": eighteenth Amendment. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "eighteenth": eighteenth-and, eighteenth-birthday, eighteenth-centuries, eighteenth-century, eighteenth-nineteenth, eighteenth-nineteenth-and, eighteenth-to.
	Ending with "eighteenth": late-eighteenth, mid-eighteenth.
	Containing "eighteenth": late-eighteenth-century.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eighteenth

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
eighteenth century	15
amendment eighteenth	14
eighteenth lounge street	13
eighteenth	9
eighteenth angel	7
birthday eighteenth	3
eighteenth century england	3
century clothing eighteenth	2
eighteenth hole.com	2
art dynasty egyptian eighteenth	2
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Modern Translations: Eighteenth

Language		Translations for "eighteenth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		agtiende. (various references)

Albanian		i tetëmbëdhjetë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الثامن عشر. (various references)

Bulgarian		осемнадесети. (various references)

Chinese		第十八 . (various references)

Czech		osmnáctý. (various references)

Danish		attende. (various references)

Dutch		achttiende. (various references)

Esperanto		dek-oka, dekoka. (various references)

Farsi		هجدهمین , هجدهم . (various references)

Finnish		kahdeksastoista. (various references)

French		dix-huitième. (various references)

German		achtzehnte. (various references)

Greek		δέκατοσ όγδοοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		tizennyolcadik. (various references)

Italian		diciottesimo (octodecimo). (various references)

Manx		hoghtoo jeig. (various references)

Pig Latin		eighteenthay.(various references)

Polish		osiemnasty. (various references)

Portuguese		mil e oitocentos. (various references)

Romanian		al optsprezecelea. (various references)

Russian		восемнадцатый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osamnaesti. (various references)

Spanish		decimoctavo. (various references)

Swedish		artonde. (various references)

Turkish		onsekizinci şey, onsekizinci, onsekizde bir. (various references)

Ukranian		вісімнадцятий. (various references)

Welsh		deunawfed. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Eighteenth

Language	Date	Source	Jeremiah Chapter 52, Verse 29
Latin	405	Vulgate	In anno octavodecimo Nabuchodonosor de Hierusalem animas octingentas triginta duas
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	In the eiytetenthe yer, Nabugodonosor translatede fro Jerusalem eiyte hundrid lyues and two and thretty.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:
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Matched Bible Translations: Eighteenth

Language	Jeremiah Chapter 52, Verse 29
Bulgarian	в осемнадесетата година на Навуходоносора той плени от Ерусалим осемстотин тридесет и двама души;
Cebuano	Sa ikapulo ug walo ka tuig ni Nabucodonosor siya mibihag gikan sa Jerusalem sa walo ka gatus ug katloan ug duha ka tawo;
Chinese	尼布 �"� 尼 �'' 十八年從耶路 �'' 冷 �"� 去八百三十二人．
Croatian	osamnaeste godine Nabukodonozorove osamsto trideset i dvije osobe iz Jeruzalema;
Danish	i Nebukadrezars attende År 832 fra Jerusalem;
Dutch	In het achttiende jaar van Nebukadrezar, voerde hij gevankelijk weg achthonderd twee en dertig zielen uit Jeruzalem;
Finnish	Nebukadressarin kahdeksantenatoista hallitusvuotena kahdeksansataa kolmekymmentä kaksi henkeä Jerusalemista,
French	la dix-huitième année de Nebucadnetsar, il emmena de Jérusalem huit cent trente-deux personnes;
German	Im achtzehnten Jahr aber des Nebukadnezars achthundert und zweiunddreißig Seelen aus Jerusalem;
Haitian Creole	Nan dizwityèm lanne rèy li a, li depòte witsantrannde (832) moun lavil Jerizalèm.
Hungarian	A Nabukodonozor tizennyolczadik esztendejében Jeruzsálembõl nyolczszáz és harminczkét lélek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	(52:28)
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan pada tahun yang kedelapan belas dari pada kerajaan Nebukadnezar dipindahkannya dari Yeruzalem delapan ratus tiga puluh dua orang.
Italian	nell'anno decimo ottavo di Nabucodònosor furono deportati da Gerusalemme ottocentotrentadue persone;
Korean	느 부 �" 네 살 의 이 십 삼 년 에 시 위 대 장 관 느 부 사 라 단 이 사 로 잡 아 옮 긴 � 다 인 이 � 백 사 십 오 인 이 니 그 총 수 가 사 천 육 백 인 이 었 �" 라
Maori	I te tekau ma waru o nga tau o Nepukareha, e waru rau e toru tekau ma rua nga tangata i whakaraua atu e ia i Hiruharama:
Modern Greek	εν τω δεκατω ογδοω ετει του Ναβουχοδονοσορ μετωκισεν αυτος απο Ιερουσαλημ οκτακοσιας τριακοντα δυο ψυχας·
Norwegian	i Nebukadnesars attende år åtte hundre og to og tretti sjeler fra Jerusalem;
Portuguese	no ano décimo oitavo de Nabucodonozor, ele levou cativas de Jerusalém oitocentas e trinta e duas pessoas;
Rumanian	kn al optsprezecelea an al lui Nebucadneyar, a luat din Ierusalim opt sute treizeci wi doi de inwi;
Spanish	En el año 18, Nabucodonosor llevó cautivos a 832 personas de Jerusalén.
Swedish	och i Nebukadressars adertonde: regeringsår åtta hundra trettiotvå personer från Jerusalem.
Thai	ในปีที่สิบแป�"แห่งรัชกาลเนบูคั�"เนสซาร์ ท่านขนเชลยจากกรุงเยรูซาเล็มแป�"ร้อยสามสิบสองคน
Ukrainian	У вісімнадцятому році Навуходоносора вигнав він з Єрусалиму вісім сотень тридцять і дві душі.
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Derivations & Misspellings: Eighteenth

Derivations
	Words beginning with "eighteenth": eighteenths. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eighteenth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eighteerth. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Eighteenth"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "eighteenth" (pronounced ātē"nth or ā"tēnth)
4	-t ē" n th	fifteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth, thirteenth.
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Anagrams: Eighteenth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-h-i-n-t-t"
	-2 letters: eighteen, heighten, teething.
	-3 letters: genette, tighten.
	-4 letters: eighth, ethene, height, teeing, teethe, tentie, theine.
	-5 letters: eight, genet, genie, heigh, hight, hinge, neigh, night, teeth, tenet, tenge, tenth, thegn, thein, thigh, thine, thing, tight, tinge, tithe.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-h-h-i-n-t-t"
	+1 letter: eighteenths.
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