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Word entry · 9 letters

twentieth

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"Ordinal after 19th"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted eehintttwStarts with TEnds with H1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. coming next after the nineteenth in position

Word origin

From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth.

Used in a sentence

  • As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
  • “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.

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