XVIIIth

English

Etymology

From XVIII (Roman numeral representing eighteen) +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: XVIIIth

Adjective

XVIIIth (not comparable)

1. 18th; Abbreviation of eighteenth.
   • 1863, Georgiana Malcolm, transl., Pictures of German Life In the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, translation of original by Freytag, Gustav:

     PICTURES / of / GERMAN LIFE / In the XVIII^th and XIX^th Centuries.

   • 1895, Egyptian Tales: XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty, page 29:

     The prince goes to the chief of Naharaina, a land probably unknown to the Egyptians until the Asiatic conquests of the XVIIIth Dynasty had led them to the upper waters of the Euphrates.

   • 1900, French Architects and Sculptors of the XVIIIth Century, London: George Bell and Sons, page XIII:

     French Architects of the XVIIIth Century.

   • 1940, Printed Books of the XVth to the XVIIIth Century, Many Illustrated with Woodcuts Or Engravings, page 12:

     Nordenskiold: Periplus, reproduces the Chart of the Arctic Ocean (No. II. of our Atlas) on p. 97, and notes (p. 98) that this is a very early map of the North Coast of Asia based on the Great Northern Expedition (1734–42); no official and complete atlas faithfully rendering the observations of this Expedition was published during the XVIIIth cent.

   • 1992, Józef Jagielski, Mirosław Górnicki, editors, Electrocardiology '91: Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress on Electrocardiology: Warsaw, Poland, 24 – 26 August 1991, World Scientific, →ISBN, page IV:

     XVIIIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, 1991

   • 2001, Angel Miguel Navarro, Flemish and Dutch Masters (from the XVIth to the XVIIIth Century) at the National Museum of Fine Arts, →ISBN, page 46:

     We believe that this work was produced in Flanders in the XVIII^th century imitating the style that prevailed there during the first quarter of the previous century.

   • 2006, Imagining Europe in the XVIIIth century: the case of Herder:

     Imagining Europe in the XVIII^th century: the case of Herder

   • 2011, Karen B. Brown, David V. Snyder, editors, General Reports of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Springer, →ISBN:

     General Reports of the XVIII^th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Usage notes

Used in the titles of conferences.

Synonyms

• 18th
• eighteenth

See also

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