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twentieth
CEFRA1
/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Coming after the nineteenth and before the twenty-first.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailA person or thing in the twentieth position.
Examples
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 4
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- [ˈtw̥ɛ.ɾ̃i.əθ]
- /ˈtwɛn.i.əθ/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsOne of twenty equal parts of a whole.
The ordinal form of the number twenty.
More examples
In contextAs 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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Origin
adjective
From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth. Etymological notes twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as cont...