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eighteenth - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun music , an interval comprehending two octaves and a fourth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective adjective noun noun
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adjective eighteen .noun noun noun informal A party to celebrate an eighteenth birthday .
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adjective noun
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[28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211).
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
The first thing to do was to cultivate the foreign example; and with that what we call the eighteenth century began.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
If we are not deceived in that hope, if the art of to-day has really come alive out of the slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century, it will surely grow and gather strength and draw to it other forms of intellect and hope that now scarcely know it; and then, whatever changes it may go through, it will at the last be victorious, and bring abundant content to mankind.
Hopes and Fears for Art William Morris 1865
The Marquis: Inferno - Gotta love Guy Davis 'writing and drawing a weirdly-masked vigilante fighting demons in eighteenth -century France.
Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: What Looks Good for July | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth -century wealthy families?
Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions 2009
Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth -century wealthy families?
Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions 2009
Was her initial distance from them an inevitable result of customs in eighteenth -century wealthy families?
Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions 2009
Why did men of rank in eighteenth -century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels?
Scarlet Heels 2009
Keanu will be playing a samurai swordsman in eighteenth century Japan.
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Why did men of rank in eighteenth -century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels?
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