twentieth  /ˈtwɛn ti əθ/ ? Meaning of "twentieth"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) position 20 in a countable series of things
  2. (adj) coming next after the nineteenth in position

Usage(s):

  1. Dad and I went to twentieth and Greenfield on Saturday, and I knew I was not going to get the guitar.
  2. A look at the life and work of a twentieth century icon.
  3. Europe does not account for one-twentieth of the entire world.

Quotes

  1. "If we look back at the public investments of the mid-twentieth century-the GI Bill, federal home loan guarantees, better funding for public education and college-we see that they were geared at two key benchmarks on the way to the middle-class:...
    on Nov 28, 2007 By: Henry Cisneros Source: EurekAlert (press release)

  2. ...conceived of lobbing nuclear weapons through space rapidly via missile in March 1953, and he consulted a Princeton physicist named John von Neumann (a Hungarian immigrant and "possibly the finest intelligence of the twentieth century after...
    on Oct 21, 2009 By: Neil Sheehan Source: Newsday

  3. "I have this kind of unwritten deal with [Twentieth-Century] Fox," Cameron joked last month, "that any time one of my movies makes more than a billion dollars we leave all the crap trailers off."
    on Apr 15, 2010 By: James Cameron Source: Globe and Mail

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