twenty-fourth

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

adjective

1. next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
2. being one of 24 equal parts.

noun

1. a twenty-fourth part, especially of one (1/24).
2. the twenty-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

This excellent young man perished in the twenty-fourth year of his age.

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The next morning was a Sunday, the twenty-fourth of September.

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The twenty-third hour is therefore subject to Jupiter, and the twenty-fourth to Mars.

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On the afternoon of January twenty-fourth, Superintendent Marshall was inspecting the tail-race of the mill.

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On the twenty-fourth of August, St. Bartholomew's day, the plot broke out in an awful massacre.

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