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twenty-third

twenty-third

3 1.0
The number that comes after twenty-two in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˈtwɛntiˌθɜrd/
translation icon : vigésimo tercero
  • On the twenty-third evening of their visit, the aliens left.
  • twenty-third Street
  • twenty-third year

Examples

  • Three minutes later, Harry stepped out of the elevator and into the twenty-third-floor offices of Manhattan Woman magazine.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • In 1920, the Russell Sage Foundation ranked Hawai'i's system twenty-third among the fifty-three states and territories in the country.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Her chances are so much better than if it had been the twenty-third week...

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Today is her twenty-third wedding anniversary, and just now she is caught in a moment of reflection.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Is it September twenty-third?

    Fiction book (2000)

  • And on January twenty-third, the North Koreans had seized the USS Pueblo.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • At Herald Square and in front of the Brooklyn Eagle office on Twenty-third Street, large crowds watched the bulletins, but the spectators watched silently and without much show of enthusiasm.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The meeting is scheduled for the twenty-third of June at 10 a.m.

  • She celebrated her twenty-third birthday with a big party.

  • Our reservation is for the twenty-third floor of the hotel.

Synonyms

23rd
vstwenty-third
40 1.0

The position that comes after twenty-two in a list

is written as a word rather than as digits

How Late

hundredth
7 1.0
thirtieth
5 1.0
twenty-third
3 1.0
twentieth
48 1.0
tenth
35 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

twenty-third positive

Morphology

twenty-third = twenty + third (transparent) = twenty + third

Standard formation combining the tens 'twenty' with the unit ordinal 'third' to form the ordinal for 23, which is directly interpretable by learners who know those parts.

Etymology

The word twenty-third combines twenty ('two tens') and third ('third in order'), so it simply means 'the 23rd'.