'Fifteenth' definitions:
Definition of 'fifteenth'
From: WordNet
adjective
Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position [syn: fifteenth, 15th]
noun
Position 15 in a countable series of things
Definition of 'Fifteenth'
From: GCIDE
- Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, a. [OE. fiftenthe; cf. fiftethe, AS. f[imac]fte[=o][eth]a. See Fifteen.]
- 1. Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fifteenth'
From: GCIDE
- Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, n.
- 1. One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mus.) (a) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon. (b) An interval consisting of two octaves. [1913 Webster]