twenty-fifth
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- adjective
- /ˈtwɛntiˌfɪfθ/
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vigésimo quinto
- Hope Newfield preferred to keep her age to herself and had no intention of celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday.
- twenty-fifth anniversary
- celebration of the twenty-fifth
- twenty-fifth year
Examples
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ALCTS, our name since 1989, celebrates its twenty-fifth birthday in 2014.
Academic text (2015) -
Because you were born on December twenty-fifth.
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I started there as a copywriter just before my twenty-fifth birthday.
Fiction book (2000) -
"My wife's sister went for it for her twenty-fifth anniversary.
Fiction book (1995) -
In 2004, the NCPH itself reached its twenty-fifth year.
Academic text (2004) -
Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of that sanitorium burning down.
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For once, Harris was grateful for the respectable-looking briefcase his wife had given him on their twenty-fifth anniversary.
Fiction book (2000) -
Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from Martin Green's history of TLR published in the twenty-fifth anniversary issue in Summer 1982.
Academic text (2007) -
This year, she turned twenty-fifth and celebrated with a big party.
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He counted down the days until his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
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Next after the twenty-fourth in order, the number twenty-five
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Etymology
Twenty-fifth is simply a number made from twenty ('20') and fifth (from five, '5') with the ending -th to show order. So it means '25th' — the one that comes after the twenty-fourth.