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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In the army, the church, the law, and the administration of government, they furnish nineteen twentieths of the men employed, and these do all that is really onerous.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
Far from it, nineteen twentieths of all our words are so common that they require no proof at all of legitimacy.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
Perhaps nineteen twentieths of the houses are built of bluish-gray adobe bricks, and are only one or two stories high, forming fine cottage homes which promise simple comfort within.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir
Let us then take his figures and suppose that the two twentieths, and the four sous per livre of the first twentieth, produced the eleven per cent. which they should theoretically have given.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
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
