12th
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- adjective
- /twɛlfθ/
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duodécimo
- You will need to submit your application by the 12th of next month.
- 12th grade
- 12th graders
- 12th-grade students
Examples
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Jake has a house on West 12th Street and a farmhouse near Cooperstown.
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I'd like to report a problem with the 12th floor.
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You will finish the bridge by the 12th day of May.
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The first count was not taken until the 12th week of the study.
Academic text (2008) -
You were assigned to civil defense at the 12th district?
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Mid-12th century, I should think.
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The church was established at the beginning of the 12th century but was destroyed in 1263.
Academic text (2000) -
And for my 12th birthday, my mother bought me some puppets, and pretty soon, I was spreading joy throughout the community.
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Well, it looks like it's that time of year again— the 12th annual Holiday Wintertainment Parade.
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The Boston Youth Survey is a biennial paper-and-pencil survey of 9th- through 12th-grade students in Boston public schools.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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Coming after the eleventh and before the thirteenth
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Surface Forms
Morphology
12th = 12 + th
Standard ordinal formation from the numeral 12 with the suffix '-th'; the meaning 'twelfth' is directly and predictably derived from the base numeral.
Etymology
12Th is the form used to show the order of twelve, which you can remember as 'ten plus two' or simply 'two more than ten'. The -th ending turns a number into an order, so 12th means 'number twelve in order'.