twenty-fifth

American  

[twen-tee-fifth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈfɪfθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.

2. being one of 25 equal parts.

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noun

twenty-fifths plural

1. a twenty-fifth part, especially of one (1/25).

2. the twenty-fifth member of a series.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• twenty-fifths
  plural

Example Sentences

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twenty-fifth twenty-fifths

“Just three months after rejoining UNESCO, the United States has its twenty-fifth site inscribed on the World Heritage List, which illustrates the richness and diversity of the country’s cultural and natural heritage,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

Find the twenty-fifth term of a sequence where the first term is five and the common difference is three.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

Ronaldo left the field with a knee injury in the twenty-fifth minute, Portugal beat France in extra time, and Pinto burst into tears.

From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019

In the 1947 twenty-fifth edition of "Gray’s Anatomy," that primary text and medical student’s bible on the human body, it was missing in action.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2019

I take her hand and say, “Let me check, Mama. I’m sure the twenty-fifth will be fine.”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

With the compound numerals, such a construction is less common; yet the denominator of a fraction may be a number of this sort: as, seven twenty-fifths.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold