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

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

2. the twenty-fifth member of a series.

Example Sentences

“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

"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" he says.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

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

This year, as the company celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, he has outed his covert mission—making the bullet obsolete—to the audience that has always meant the most to him.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Sophie scratched that wool of hers and said, ‘Miss Hester, I thinks it comes on the twenty-fifth this year.’

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee