twenty-fourth

[ twen-tee-fawrth, -fohrth, twuhn- ]

/ ˈtwɛn tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ, ˈtwʌn- /

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next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.

being one of 24 equal parts.

a twenty-fourth part, especially of one (1/24).

the twenty-fourth member of a series.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.
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Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
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But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
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He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.
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He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
On four bells there are four times as many changes as on three; that is—four times six changes, which makes Twenty-four.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various