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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOURTEEN, a. [four and ten.] Four and ten; twice seven.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being one more than thirteen [syn: fourteen, 14, xiv] n
1: the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one [syn: fourteen, 14, XIV]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English fourtene, from Old English f?owert?ene, from f?owert?ene, adjective, from f?ower + -t?ene; akin to Old English t?en ten Date: before 12th century — see number table • fourteen adjective • fourteen pronoun, plural in construction • fourteenth adjective or noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 one more than thirteen, or four more than ten; the product of two units and seven units. 2 a symbol for this (14, xiv, XIV). 3 a size etc. denoted by fourteen. --adj. that amount to fourteen. Derivatives: fourteenth adj. & n. Etymology: OE feowertiene (as FOUR, -TEEN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fourteen Four"teen`, a. [OE. fourtene, feowertene, AS. fe['o]wert[=y]ne, fe['o]wert[=e]ne. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Forty.] Four and ten more; twice seven.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fourteen Four"teen`, n. 1. The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects. 2. A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fourteens) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Fourteen is the number 14. I'm fourteen years old. NUM

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

for'-ten.

See NUMBER.