19th

One before twentieth

Nineteenth, the ordinal form of nineteen.

It indicates position in a sequence: She finished 19th in the race.

The 19th century spans 1801–1900, though informally people use it for the 1800s.

The 19th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution granted women the right to vote.

ordinal

nineteenth

Position after eighteen

eighteenth · twentieth · numeral · ordering · enumeration · serial · hole · amendment · precinct · district

century-history

Industrial Revolution

Era of mechanized production

suffrage · Manifest Destiny · Gold Rush · Emancipation Proclamation · Opium Wars · Crimean War · Franco-Prussian War · Oregon Trail · Seneca Falls · Treaty of Waitangi

century-art

Impressionism

Art movement emphasizing light

Pre-Raphaelites · Symbolism · Aestheticism · Barbizon School · Hudson River School · salon · exhibition

century-literature

novel

New and unusual

Dickens · Tolstoy · Austen · Brontë · Dostoevsky · Hugo · Melville · Flaubert · Whitman · Thoreau

Opposites
ordinal vs. cardinal number type

19thnineteen

Eighth prime number

19 · cardinal

sequence position

19th1st

Earliest in order

first · 2nd · second · last · final

Phrases
Family

ninth, 19th-century

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