twelfth
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- adjective
- /twɛlfθ/
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duodécimo
- Sasha was meant to be the twelfth.
- twelfth century
- twelfth grade
- late twelfth
Examples
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Public school teachers of all subject areas, kindergarten through twelfth-grade level, were eligible for awards.
Academic text (1990) -
It was my twelfth birthday party.
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She's been on her own from her twelfth year, when her mother died.
Fiction book (1997) -
The ruins of Angkor Wat, built at the end of the twelfth century.
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Twelfth graders.
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Matilda's anniversary was recorded alongside those of the abbots in a twelfth-century liturgical calendar.
Academic text (1999) -
The Vierzon Cartulary, for instance, appears to be a midcentury copy of an earlier twelfth-century manuscript.
Academic text (1999) -
Central to Le Goff's thesis is his attribution of the twelfth-century birth of purgatory to social-historical causes.
Academic text (2008) -
Today is my friend's twelfth birthday, and we are throwing a surprise party.
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The twelfth chapter of the book reveals the main character's true intentions.
Synonyms
Compounds
A day twelve days after Christmas when Christians remember the visit of the three wise men
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Twelfth as an adjective is the same idea: twelve + -th, used to show order like '12th' for dates or places. So when you say 'the twelfth page' you mean the page that is number twelve in order.