Synonyms:
nineteenth, 19th
Meaning: coming next after the eighteenth in position
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
nineteenth
Meaning: position 19 in a countable series of things
Usage examples
Such is the mission of the nineteenth century.
When it was the Six Hundred and Nineteenth Night,
I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.
Immortality, even in the nineteenth century, is not granted to those who rhyme 'awe' and 'war' together.
But the idea was as new to him and the scientists of his court as Darwinism was to the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
Yet the mail-packet of the twentieth century will be very different from packets which have "made the running" towards the close of the nineteenth.
Tennyson, a very typical nineteenth century man, uttered one of the instinctive truisms of his contemporaries when he said that there was faith in their honest doubt.
He lived from 1803 to 1869, and because of his audacity in using new and startling tonal effects was called the most flagrant musical heretic of the nineteenth century.
Yonder lies the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century, and we are--Get a hustle on, boys! The day is waning, and with so much to see, to study, to--Come, I say!"
Aside from the personal interest that attaches to the picturesque career, so typically American, there is a broader aspect in which the work of the "Franklin of the Nineteenth Century" touches the welfare and progress of the race.