Fourteen Meaning
/ˈfɔː.tiːn/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
numThe cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen.
Sentence Examples
And I was fourteen years old before I touched a piano for the first time.
My brother left his school when he was fourteen years old.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The teenager was ____ years old when she started high school.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She spent ____ days traveling across Europe, visiting several historic cities along the way.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English fourtene, from Old English fēowertīene, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Cognate with West Frisian fjirtjin, Dutch veertien, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten. Equivalent to four + -teen.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records."
— 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teenager was ____ years old when she started high school.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She spent ____ days traveling across Europe, visiting several historic cities along the way.