fifteen

Quarter hour's minutes

Fifteen is the cardinal number between fourteen and sixteen, represented as 15.

It appears in common expressions: fifteen minutes of fame suggests brief celebrity, from Andy Warhol's prediction that everyone would be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

In tennis, fifteen is the first point scored.

age

teenager

Person aged thirteen-nineteen

puberty · sophomore · freshman · juvenile · minor · coming-of-age · curfew · awkwardness · growth · maturation

duration

minutes

Sixty-second intervals

increment · timer · countdown · break · pause · delay · timeout · quarter · segment · period

quantity

dozen

Group of twelve

  • scoreNumerical standing in competition
  • handfulAmount a palm holds
  • batchQuantity produced together

group · cluster · set · collection · bundle · assortment

midpoint

halfway

At the midpoint

midway · center · middle · half · halftime · intermission · midmonth · midpoint

counting

enumeration

Sequential listing of items

sum · addition · calculation · numeration · reckoning · tabulation · computation · census · inventory · listing

Categories
Opposites
numerical negation

fifteenzero

Numerical absence of quantity

nothing · none

cultural milestone contrast

fifteensixteen

Number after fifteen

sweet sixteen · eighteen · twenty-one

scale endpoints

fifteenzero

Numerical absence of quantity

infinity · one · million

Phrases
Family

fifteenth, fifteens, fifteenths, fifteen minutes, fifteenfold

Familiarity
Top 2,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G