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English Dictionary: fifteenth by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fifteenth
adj
  1. coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
    Synonym(s): fifteenth, 15th
n
  1. position 15 in a countable series of things
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, a. [OE. fiftenthe; cf. fiftethe, AS.
      f[c6]fte[omac][edh]a. See {Fifteen}.]
      1. Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of
            fifteen.
  
      2. Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a
            thing.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, n.
      1. One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a
            unit divided by fifteen.
  
      2. A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on
            towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth
            part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had
            been valued at. --Burrill.
  
      3. (Mus.)
            (a) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the
                  diaposon.
            (b) An interval consisting of two octaves.
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