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2️⃣ Number 20th 2️⃣ 20th position
twentieth

twentieth

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The place that is number twenty in a list or one of twenty equal parts
  • noun
  • /ˈtwɛntiəθ/
translation icon : vigésimo
  • What about the twentieth? - That's your best time.
  • twentieth century
  • early twentieth
  • late twentieth

Examples

  • The boundary between town and country in early twentieth-century Iowa was permeable in both directions.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Vegetable gardens and chickens were common in early twentieth-century suburbs.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The world today looks more like that of the nineteenth century than that of the late twentieth.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Rapidly growing school enrollments during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced an ever-growing demand for teachers.

    Academic text (1995)

  • William Schaefer has recently analyzed Feng's essay and observed its relation to early twentieth-century theories of modernism.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The twentieth chapter of the book provides a crucial turning point in the story.

  • Her twentieth birthday was a grand celebration with friends and family.

  • The city will host a festival to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its founding.

Synonyms

20th
vstwentieth
375 1.0

The day or position that comes after the nineteenth

is the word form rather than a numeric abbreviation

Compounds

twentieth century
33 1.0

The period from 1901 to 2000

How Much

whole
484 1.0
half
∞ 1.0
third
605 1.0
to quarter
5 2.1
tenth
58 1.0
twentieth
6 1.0
hundredth
7 1.0

Surface Forms

twentieth singular
twentieths plural

Morphology

twentieth = twenty (transparent) = twent + ieth

This is the regular ordinal formation from 'twenty', with a predictable spelling change in the final stem before the ordinal suffix.

Etymology

Twentieth combines twenty with the ending -th, and like the familiar word tenth it can mean 'one of twenty equal parts' or the 20th position. So, a twentieth is either the number in 20th place or one part when something is divided into twenty.