twentieth

[Twen·ti*eth]

Position 20 in a countable series of things

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

Noun
position 20 in a countable series of things

Adjective S.
coming next after the nineteenth in position


a.
Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

a.
Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.

n.
The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.

n.
The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.


Twentieth

Twen"ti*eth , a. [From Twenty; cf. AS. twentigoa. See Twenty.] 1. Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty. 2. Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twentieth

Twen"ti*eth, n. 1. The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others. 2. The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.

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

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

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Usage Examples

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

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