Definition of fourteen in English:

fourteen

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cardinal number

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(also xiv, XIV)
Equivalent to the product of seven and two; one more than thirteen, or six less than twenty; 14.
‘they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement’
- ‘all fourteen of us were seated’
- ‘The Christmas tree, still on display, was nearly fourteen feet high and did not yet reach the ceiling.’
- ‘It's about thirteen or fourteen essays and some other stuff, seven or eight poems and a couple of plays.’
- ‘A lot could be written on the delight of setting foot on rock after fourteen weeks of snow and ice and nearly seven out of sight of all else.’
- ‘Seven of the fourteen cuts in tutorials have already been made, most significantly as the result of the introduction of a compulsory thesis.’
- ‘I was devastated, and mourned Daddy's passing for twelve, thirteen, maybe even fourteen minutes.’
- ‘He birdied thirteen of fourteen holes but these scores were overshadowed by the events on the par three eight.’
- ‘Imagine if you put fourteen artists from seven different countries in a room together.’
- ‘The graveyard consists of twenty rows with fourteen and a half lots in each row, room for more than a thousand burials.’
- ‘There are fourteen contributors, and thirteen admit to an ongoing full or part time academic appointment.’
- ‘Jepson claims the service will charge a twenty-five cent connection fee for each call, and seven to fourteen cents per minute.’
- ‘It is a four-mile permanent road course with fourteen turns outlined by seven miles of access road on 626 acres of land.’
- ‘All thirteen girls and fourteen boys raced each other once Mr. Fleur blew his whistle.’
- ‘The work, mostly painting, tends towards the abstract and each is a series of seven, fourteen or ten.’
- ‘In the past month, US pilots have struck from seven to fourteen targets a week.’
- ‘Joy says a reasonable guide is to use the drugs as directed, for seven to fourteen days.’
- ‘The technique was tried in fourteen patients, and seven patients were controls.’
- ‘The graves were well made of round limestone, they were about four feet long, one foot wide and about fourteen inches deep.’
- ‘Plus, after nearly fourteen months of untroubled service, I'm finally getting tired of this design.’
- ‘The trip took nearly fourteen hours, but it now takes less than five hours by bus or train.’
- ‘Compiled by a group of US foreign policy experts, the programme included fourteen different points.’
1. 1.1A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by fourteen.
  ‘By 9: 00 I'd had enough and turned it off - before I shoved my size fourteens through the cathode.’
2. 1.2Fourteen years old.
  ‘he left school at fourteen’
  ‘Born in 1921, into a family of nine, Jimmy started work at the age of fourteen with Waterford County Council.’
  ‘Sharon made her first trip stateside at the tender age of fourteen, as part of a group of traditional musicians from Dublin and Clare.’
  ‘She had emigrated from Germany to America at the age of fourteen.’
  ‘In 1901 the school leaving age was set at fourteen, but in 1944 it was raised to fifteen.’
  ‘I think the important lessons of our life occur between the ages fourteen and nineteen.’
  ‘The Jamaican youngster loved to read, but was forced to leave school in 1901 at the age of fourteen.’
  ‘She looked after her father and brothers from the age of fourteen on the untimely death of her mother.’
  ‘It was necessary to field a young team of juveniles with players under fourteen years of age.’
  ‘I'm just afraid they'll get flamed because I wrote them when I was thirteen and fourteen.’
  ‘While she might have indeed been sixteen years old, she could have easily passed for fourteen or even thirteen.’
  ‘When she was thirteen or fourteen, she wandered into the town museum and spotted the pendant in the crystal ball.’
  ‘He looked hardly more than a child to me, maybe thirteen or fourteen.’
  ‘Finally when you were about thirteen or fourteen, you were brought back to the Palace for a while.’
  ‘I was fourteen and she was seven and we were both awestruck by the large house by the shimmering lake.’
  ‘She looked perhaps thirteen or fourteen, sitting on a bench with her knees drawn up under her chin.’
  ‘They wear three braids when they are thirteen or fourteen, and five braids at the age of fifteen or sixteen.’
  ‘At age thirteen or fourteen New Zealand players go to Australia and compete well, but then the gap starts to widen.’
  ‘Education is free and compulsory between ages seven and fourteen.’
  ‘She had been a tender fourteen, and the other girl was nearing sixteen.’
  ‘Only fourteen then, she was now up for parole, having been, as they say, a model prisoner.’