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# twentieth

«twentieth» in Mova's school dictionary: **Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number, adjective, noun (twentieth, twentieths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#m1)

2) A twentieth is one of twenty equal parts of a whole, written 1/20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#m2)

3) The twentieth century was a hundred years of history, the time of the first cars, planes and computers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order position or a fraction: one twentieth = 1/20 = 0.05 = 5%; as a fraction divide by 20; as an order word there are 19 before it. History: the twentieth century, with cars, planes and computers.

### examples

- She was the twentieth person in line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x1)
- One twentieth of 100 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x2)
- On his twentieth birthday he got a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x3)
- The twentieth floor is the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x4)
- One twentieth is the same as five percent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x5)
- Planes were invented in the twentieth century. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x6)
- “Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round,” she reminded him a little tartly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/#x7)

### note

Written 20th. As a fraction divide by 20. As an order word it gives a position: there are 19 before it. Trap: the twentieth century is the hundred years whose numbers begin with 19, not 20.

### In the corpora

- [«Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/5/)
- [Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/5/)
- [And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.209/)
- [And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.564/)
- [in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAG.16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twentieth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twentieth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.