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TWENTIETH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position 20 in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("twentieth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the nineteenth in position
Synonyms:
20th; twentieth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Cast on another culpon, John, and stir the broth with thy sword-sheath,” growled Johnston, looking anxiously for the twentieth time at the reeking pot.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was on the morning of Friday, the eight-and-twentieth day of November, two days before the feast of St. Andrew, that the cog and her two prisoners, after a weary tacking up the Gironde and the Garonne, dropped anchor at last in front of the noble city of Bordeaux.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
