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/ˈfɪf.tiːn/ · numeral
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.
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.
Use fifteen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fifteen means The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16)..
Common synonyms include XV, 15, cardinal, xv.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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