twenty-second

American  

[twen-tee-sek-uhnd, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɛk ənd, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.

2. being one of 22 equal parts.

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noun

1. a twenty-second part, especially of one (1/22).

2. the twenty-second member of a series.

Example Sentences

With “Long Long Road,” his twenty-second studio album, Ringo Starr has settled into one of his career’s finest grooves.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

The Department of Human Services court filing Monday said Favre “possibly recorded a single twenty-second radio advertisement” for that $1.1 million.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022

Branson's July 11 mission will be the twenty-second flight test for VSS Unity, and the company's fourth crewed spaceflight, Virgin said.

From Reuters • Jul. 2, 2021

The woman sitting at the Georgia O’Keeffe place setting, an art administrator celebrating her twenty-second birthday, gleefully downed hers in one mouthful and pronounced the texture “silky” and “delightfully greaseless.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2018

But after landing, the spacecraft returned a twenty-second fragment of a featureless television picture to Earth and then mysteriously failed.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan