twenty-fourth

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

/ ˈtwɛn tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ, ˈtwʌn- /

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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Christmas eve came at last, just as the girls had had faith to believe it would come, on the twenty-fourth.
Six Girls and the Tea Room|Marion Ames Taggart
On the twenty-fourth the squadron sailed into the narrow entrance of Port Royal, where the tide runs like a mill-stream.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
This is the twenty-fourth pretender of the species who has asserted that his father was the august victim of the Temple.
Burlesques|William Makepeace Thackeray
Hesiod tells us that the days regarded as sacred in his day were the fourth, fourteenth and twenty-fourth of each month.
The Astronomy of the Bible|E. Walter Maunder

It was precisely thirteen minutes past one on the twenty-fourth of January when I drew my last breath.
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann