Eighteenth
adjective
In the place or ranking of number 18.
She was the eighteenth person to join the line.
Often appears as...
- eighteenth century
- eighteenth birthday
noun
The one in an 18th position in a countable series.
His favorite painter was the eighteenth in the book.
Often appears as...
- the eighteenth of the month
- the eighteenth row
adjective
In the place or ranking of number 18.
She was the eighteenth person to join the line.
Often appears as...
- eighteenth century
- eighteenth birthday
noun
The one in an 18th position in a countable series.
His favorite painter was the eighteenth in the book.
Often appears as...
- the eighteenth of the month
- the eighteenth row
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Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Used to refer to the 18th position in historical timelines, particularly centuries.
The Industrial Revolution began in the eighteenth century.
Pro Tip 2/3Milestone Celebration
Commonly refers to significant birthdays or anniversaries, like turning 18.
Her eighteenth birthday was celebrated with a grand party.
Pro Tip 3/3Ranked Position
Indicates precise order in a sequence, often in competitions or lists.
He finished in the eighteenth place in the race.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Used to refer to the 18th position in historical timelines, particularly centuries.
The Industrial Revolution began in the eighteenth century.
Pro Tip 2/3Milestone Celebration
Commonly refers to significant birthdays or anniversaries, like turning 18.
Her eighteenth birthday was celebrated with a grand party.
Pro Tip 3/3Ranked Position
Indicates precise order in a sequence, often in competitions or lists.
He finished in the eighteenth place in the race.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Used to refer to the 18th position in historical timelines, particularly centuries.
The Industrial Revolution began in the eighteenth century.
Pro Tip 2/3Milestone Celebration
Commonly refers to significant birthdays or anniversaries, like turning 18.
Her eighteenth birthday was celebrated with a grand party.
Pro Tip 3/3Ranked Position
Indicates precise order in a sequence, often in competitions or lists.
He finished in the eighteenth place in the race.
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Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...
It's actually a nickname given to priests in the eighteenth century." And he went, "Furthermore, I'm a priest myself." And so I said, "Would you mind coming to the court?" And he said he'd be delighted. And I said -- and he said, "Would you like me to wear my dog collar?"
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Titanic Phys Ed PIPE...
brendan and you and i start to assemble the components of the electric force so this is a fantastic bit of engineering it's obviously working very smoothly they had these kind of mechanisms around sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth century
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Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...
It's actually a nickname given to priests in the eighteenth century." And he went, "Furthermore, I'm a priest myself." And so I said, "Would you mind coming to the court?" And he said he'd be delighted. And I said -- and he said, "Would you like me to wear my dog collar?"
Video examples
Titanic Phys Ed PIPE...
brendan and you and i start to assemble the components of the electric force so this is a fantastic bit of engineering it's obviously working very smoothly they had these kind of mechanisms around sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth century
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Quote examples
Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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James M. Buchanan
American Economist
The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
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Corita Kent
American Artist
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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James Stockdale
American Soldier
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
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Ralph Adams Cram
American Architect
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
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Lytton Strachey
English Critic
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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Wilhelm Dilthey
German Historian
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
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George Saintsbury
English Writer
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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Edmund Morgan
American Historian
Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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James M. Buchanan
American Economist
The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
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Corita Kent
American Artist
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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James Stockdale
American Soldier
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
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Ralph Adams Cram
American Architect
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Quote examples
Jill Lepore
American Historian
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
Quote examples
Lytton Strachey
English Critic
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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Wilhelm Dilthey
German Historian
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
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George Saintsbury
English Writer
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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Edmund Morgan
American Historian
Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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