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twen·ti·eth
 twentieth
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- pronunciation:
- twen
ti
ihth
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Parts
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adjective |
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If you are the twentieth person to enter the classroom, that means nineteen people came into the classroom before you.
Anna's parents are celebrating their twentieth year of being married today.Women gained the right to vote in the twentieth century. |
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noun |
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A twentieth of something is one of twenty equal parts of it. If there is a large cake cut into twenty pieces, then one piece is one twentieth of the whole thing. Two pieces is two twentieths of it, and so on. "One twentieth" written in numbers is 1/20.
The test was very hard, and only one twentieth of the students did well on it. |
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