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twenty-second

twenty-second

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The position that comes after the twenty-first, number twenty-two
  • adjective
  • /ˈtwɛntiˈsɛkənd/
translation icon : vigésimo segundo
  • Secondly (this was supposed to be my second thing), I remember Thursday the twenty-second, way back in October, one week before my sister's birthday; incidentally, I was looking at NotDoppler, which was kind of my routine at the time, and saw this game.
  • twenty-second century
  • twenty-second birthday
  • twenty-second year

Examples

  • Jesus explains this to his followers in the twenty-second chapter of Matthew, a book an eager high school student could easily read in a single evening with time to spare for a sitcom or two before bed.

    Academic text (2009)

  • This is Denny's fifth win of the season, the twenty-second of his career.

    Blog text (16)

  • It was my twenty-second birthday.

    Blog text (27)

  • Within four decades, that number increased to fifty-seven, making him the twenty-second largest slaveholder in Thomas County.

    Academic text (2011)

  • It was on the twenty-second day in a row that Franco and I hung out, and I'll never forget it.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Another target was Republican Allen West, the freshman representative for Florida's twenty-second district and a critic of Islam.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Vatican II was the twenty-second council in the history of the Church, and thus far, its effects have followed the pattern set for the last 2,000 years (for the first fifty years after a council, Church matters are a confused disaster).

    Blog text (23)

  • On the first day of her twenty-second spring, a Moon Maid topped a low rise in the Laughing Steppe, riding her dark mare toward a nomad wagon lagger.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Emma "J" for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great Earthquake devastates the Bay Area.

    Blog text (5)

  • On the twenty-second floor of the building, the view is breathtaking.

Synonyms

22nd
vstwenty-second
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Next after the twenty-first in order, for example on a list or date

is the fully written word form used in prose

How Late

hundredth
7 1.0
thirtieth
5 1.0
twenty-second
2 1.0
twentieth
48 1.0
tenth
35 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

twenty-second positive

Morphology

twenty-second = twenty + second (transparent) = twenty + second

A regular hyphenated ordinal formed by combining the cardinal 'twenty' and the ordinal 'second', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word twenty-second is made from twenty and second. The part second originally means 'following' or 'next', so twenty-second is the item or day 'after' twenty-one.