[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fifteen/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) / fifteen # fifteen number (fifteen, 15); noun (a fifteen, a team of fifteen in rugby union) «fifteen» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Fifteen is the number 15: ten and five more, one more than fourteen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#m1) 2. A fifteen is a rugby union team, which has fifteen players. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#m2) ### In the lessons In school maths fifteen is used in counting, adding, times tables (3 × 5 and 5 × 3 make 15) and telling time (quarter past is fifteen minutes past the hour). In everyday life the age of fifteen is a teenage age. Phrases: «fifteen minutes», «a quarter of an hour», «fifteen years old». ### Examples - Ten plus five is fifteen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x1) - Three fives make fifteen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x2) - We waited fifteen minutes for the bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x3) - Fifteen minutes is a quarter of an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x4) - My sister is fifteen years old. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x5) - The rugby fifteen won the match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x6) - Fifteen divided by three is five. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x7) - ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/#x8) ### Note Spelled «fifteen», not «fiveteen». Stress: «fif-TEEN» when counting, but «FIF-teen people» before a noun. Do not confuse with «fifty» (50). In maths: 15 = 10 + 5; it is odd; its factors are 1, 3, 5 and 15; fifteen minutes is one quarter of an hour. ## In Jewish tradition Interpretation: Fifteen is written with the letters yod and heh in Hebrew, but it is usually written tet-vav (9+6) so as not to spell a name of God. The fifteenth of the month is the full moon, when Passover and Sukkot begin. In the primary lessons: In school maths fifteen is used in counting, adding, times tables (3 × 5 and 5 × 3 make 15) and telling time (quarter past is fifteen minutes past the hour). In everyday life the age of fifteen is a teenage age. Phrases: «fifteen minutes», «a quarter of an hour», «fifteen years old». ### Examples - Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. (Torah GEN.7.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x1) - And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. (Torah NUM.31.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x2) - And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. (Torah GEN.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x3) - And it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers, that lay on forty and five pillars, fifteen in a row. (Prophets 1KI.7.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x4) - So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x5) - And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. (Prophets 2KI.14.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/#x6) ### Note Spelled «fifteen», not «fiveteen». Stress: «fif-TEEN» when counting, but «FIF-teen people» before a noun. Do not confuse with «fifty» (50). In maths: 15 = 10 + 5; it is odd; its factors are 1, 3, 5 and 15; fifteen minutes is one quarter of an hour. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «fifteen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifteen/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«fifteen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fifteen.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «fifteen» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fifteen/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«fifteen» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fifteen.html) on Mova free.