Fifteener
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fifteener is a noun meaning (UK, informal) A film assigned an age rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it.
Meaning
(UK, informal) A film assigned an age rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it.
More Meanings
- (bibliography, informal) A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
Example Sentences
Not intensely bloody decapitation, but the sort of violence you'd see in a fifteener.
When here and there throughout those volumes you meet with titles of books now either unknown entirely or of the greatest rarity; when you find the Colophon from the end or the "insignum typographi" from the first leaf of a rare "fifteener" pasted down with dozens of others varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.
Word Forms
- fifteeners
Synonyms for fifteener
Depending on context, synonyms include incunabulum, incunable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fifteening, fiddy, fiver, finiff, fippence, finniff.
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