fifteen

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/ˈfɪf.tiːn/

num 1

Collocations

ADJ.

be-headphoned, discounted, high, injured, last, lethargic, limited

The last fifteen minutes of the movie were surprisingly emotional and made everyone tear up.

VERB + FIFTEEN

channel, consists, cost, give, leaves, made, see

The new streaming service consists of fifteen different channels offering movies and TV shows.

FIFTEEN + NOUN

allies, dollars, members, men, minutes, minutes', people, percent

The meeting was delayed by fifteen minutes while we waited for the rest of the team to arrive.

PREP.

after, around, from, in, in, than, up

I'll arrive in about fifteen minutes, so please wait for me at the entrance.

ADV.

only

I've only been learning Spanish for fifteen months, but I can already have basic conversations.

Definitions

num

The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.

She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

adjective — being one more than fourteen

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.

Wiktionary

I first sipped an El Presidente fifteen years ago, in Havana, at a sidewalk café across from a vendor selling postcards of Che Guevara. It was revelatory.

Wiktionary

Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.

Tatoeba · #18077

Each party shall consist of no less than fifteen people.

Tatoeba · #21741

The committee is made up of fifteen members.

Tatoeba · #28266

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