twenty-fourth
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- adjective
- /ˈtwɛntiˈfɔrθ/
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vigésimo cuarto
- I bought myself a left tooth for my twenty-fourth birthday.
- twenty-fourth birthday
- twenty-fourth of December
- twenty-fourth year
Examples
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Cleveland is twenty-fourth in the league in yards allowed and twentieth in points given up.
Blog text (30) -
The National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) twenty-fourth annual report is now available.
Academic text (1990) -
This was his twenty-fourth year at Poly.
Fiction book (2001) -
It is the twenty-fourth of December, 1938.
Academic text (1998) -
The Parliament overrode Golaknath by passing the twenty-fourth amendment.
Academic text (1999) -
For about a week before the twenty-fourth of May, he drilled and rehearsed us in a program of "patriotic" singing.
Academic text (2000) -
The American Orff-Schulwerk Association will hold its twenty-fourth annual national conference at the Sheraton and Hyatt Hotels, Denver Tech Center, Denver, Colorado, November 7-11, 1990.
Academic text (1990) -
That occasion, observed annually on the twenty-fourth of May, memorialized the birth and symbolic achievements of Queen Victoria; and, as such, it was more flattering to the mother country than to her colonized children.
Academic text (2000) -
MENC members continued to make vital contributions to the cause of music education worldwide by participating in the twenty-fourth Biennial World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME).
Academic text (2000) -
She is excited to celebrate her twenty-fourth birthday with friends this weekend.
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
twenty-fourth = twenty-four (transparent) = twenty + four + th
The ordinal is formed regularly by adding the suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'twenty-four', so the meaning is directly derivable from the components.
Etymology
The word twenty-fourth is made from the number twenty-four plus the ending -th, which shows order like in first or fourth. So, twenty-fourth means 'coming after the twenty-third' or 'number 24 in a list'.