twentieth
adjective
next after the nineteenth; being the ordinal number for 20.
twentieths
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pluralof twentieth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Nineteen twentieths of these young fish are males, and some of them have the hooked jaws and red color of the old males.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
Clearly, then, the twentieths did not produce anything like the theoretical eleven per cent.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
The nineteen twentieths of the non-slaveholding population of the South are forgotten, while the one twentieth is spoken of as "the South."
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
A panic terror seized upon the weak, the credulous, and the guilty, who in those days formed more than nineteen twentieths of the population.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
This interest was, however, taxed by the government for the two twentieths.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
