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# fifteen

«fifteen» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 15: ten and five more, one more than fourteen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (fifteen, 15); noun (a fifteen, a team of fifteen in rugby union)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fifteen is the number 15: ten and five more, one more than fourteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#m1)

2) A fifteen is a rugby union team, which has fifteen players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths fifteen is used in counting, adding, times tables (3 × 5 and 5 × 3 make 15) and telling time (quarter past is fifteen minutes past the hour). In everyday life the age of fifteen is a teenage age. Phrases: «fifteen minutes», «a quarter of an hour», «fifteen years old».

### examples

- Ten plus five is fifteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x1)
- Three fives make fifteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x2)
- We waited fifteen minutes for the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x3)
- Fifteen minutes is a quarter of an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x4)
- My sister is fifteen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x5)
- The rugby fifteen won the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x6)
- Fifteen divided by three is five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x7)
- ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x8)

### note

Spelled «fifteen», not «fiveteen». Stress: «fif-TEEN» when counting, but «FIF-teen people» before a noun. Do not confuse with «fifty» (50). In maths: 15 = 10 + 5; it is odd; its factors are 1, 3, 5 and 15; fifteen minutes is one quarter of an hour.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fifteen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.