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# fourteenth

«fourteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 14 in order** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

ordinal number, adjective, noun (fourteenth, 14th; a fourteenth, fourteenths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fourteenth is number 14 in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#m1)

2) A fourteenth is one of 14 equal parts of something, written 1/14. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a position in a line or list (13 are ahead), or a fraction with 14 equal parts; everyday life: the fourteenth floor, a fourteenth birthday

### examples

- Tom is fourteenth in the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x1)
- The fourteenth page has a picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x2)
- One fourteenth of the cake is left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x3)
- Who is fourteenth in the race? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x4)
- Her fourteenth birthday is in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x5)
- One fourteenth of 28 is 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x6)
- The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteenth/#x7)

### note

As a position it is a place, not an amount; as «a fourteenth» it is 1/14. Trap: being fourteenth in line means 13 people are ahead. Short form 14th.

### In the corpora

- [In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD'S passover.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.669/)
- [And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1023/)
- [to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.167/)
- [And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.157/)
- [For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.895/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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