twenty-fourth

American  

[twen-tee-fawrth, -fohrth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

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

2. being one of 24 equal parts.

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noun

twenty-fourths plural

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

2. the twenty-fourth member of a series.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• twenty-fourths
  plural

Example Sentences

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twenty-fourth twenty-fourths

Time is now running short before the 2020 census, our twenty-fourth, will begin.

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2019

In the twenty-fourth book of Homer’s Odyssey the souls of the suitors all go down to Hades.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018

The twenty-fourth James Bond movie, Spectre, will also be the biggest, most expensive one yet, if leaked emails from the Sony hacking scandal are to be believed.

From Forbes ● Jul. 22, 2015

The fire had been started, so a week-long official investigation would later decide, by a cigarette dropped onto the balcony of unit 2424, on the twenty-fourth floor.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2015

“I represent a group called the Foundation for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring, which was created by a remarkable man named William Maxwell, the twenty-fourth baron of Aisling.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Any number of farthings is as many mils and as many twenty-fourths of a mil.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

"We are twenty-three twenty-fourths of the nation, and the more useful part at that," retorted the Commons.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)

But then no such thing as a twenty-fourth note is in use: three twenty-fourths would just do it!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various