Meanings
plural fifteeners
- informalbibliographyA book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
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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.
1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97Synonyms: incunabulum, incunable
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pénkʷe
- Proto-Germanic*fimf
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
- Proto-Germanic*tehun
- Proto-Germanic*fimftehun
- Anglian Old Englishfīftīene
- Middle Englishfiftene
- Englishfifteen
- Englishfifteener
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Cite this entry
fifteener. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fifteener
“fifteener.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fifteener. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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