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Definitions for twentieth
ˈtwɛn ti ɪθ, ˈtwʌn-twen·ti·eth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. twentiethadjective

    position 20 in a countable series of things

  2. twentieth, 20thadjective

    coming next after the nineteenth in position

Wiktionary

  1. twentiethnoun

    A person or thing in the twentieth position.

  2. twentiethnoun

    One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

  3. twentiethadjective

    The ordinal form of the number twenty.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Twentiethadjective

    Twice tenth; ordinal of twenty.

    Etymology: twenteogoða , Saxon.

    This year,
    The twentieth from the firing the capitol,
    As fatal too to Rome, by all predictions. Ben Jonson.

    The quantity of the fifteenth should be turned to a twentieth. Francis Bacon.

    Why was not I the twentieth by descent
    From a long restive race of droning kings? Dryden.

    This crown now must be raised, and coined one twentieth lighter; which is nothing but changing the denomination, calling that a crown now, which yesterday was but a part, viz. nineteen twentieths. John Locke.

Wikipedia

  1. twentieth

    20 (twenty; Roman numeral XX) is the natural number following 19 and preceding 21. A group of twenty units may also be referred to as a score.

ChatGPT

  1. twentieth

    The term "twentieth" is used to refer to the ordinal form of the number 20 and is often used to denote that something has been arranged or occurred in a sequence after nineteen others. It can refer to a person or thing in the twentieth position or segment. Additionally, "twentieth" may also refer to one of twenty equal parts of something. It is also used in fractions to describe one part of something that has been divided into twenty parts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Twentiethadjective

    next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty

  2. Twentiethadjective

    consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided

  3. Twentiethnoun

    the next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others

  4. Twentiethnoun

    the quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'twentieth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3613

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twentieth in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twentieth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of twentieth in a Sentence

  1. Noam Chomsky:

    Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

  2. John Milton:

    How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

  3. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

    One of the most generous columnists in the newspaper world was 'Jimmy Hatlo': He gave a 'Tip of the Hatlo Hat' to millions of contributors and sages in his syndicated column during the first half century of the twentieth!

  4. Malcolm Muggeridge:

    One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  5. Don DeLillo:

    In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

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