Twentieth

Definition: Twentieth

Twentieth

Adjective

1. Coming next after the nineteenth in position.

Noun

1. Position 20 in a countable series of things.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twentieth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Twentieth

Five

Vicesimal, vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth; Noun: vicenary, vicennial.

The Present Time

Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour.

Crosswords: Twentieth

Who in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny that the twentieth century was mine, all of it Kevin, all of it mine? (The Devil's Advocate; writing credit: Tony Gilroy and Jonathan Lemkin. Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman.)

I see by your hasty retreat that you're still twentieth in line. (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

The Stone Age can't coexist with the Twentieth Century. (Inside; writing credit: Bima Stagg)

He is the armless, legless wonder of the twentieth century. (Johnny Got His Gun; writing credit: Dalton Trumbo)

I know our ways are strange to you, but soon you will join us in the twentieth century, with three whole years to spare. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Jack Benny's Twentieth Anniversary Special (1970)

Think Twentieth (1967)

The Twentieth Century (1957)

Twentieth Century (1934)

Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the Twentieth Century (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Politics in the New South: Republicanism, Race and Leadership in the Twentieth Century (reference)

• Russian Orthodox Church: Tenth to Twentieth Centuries (reference)

• The Poets' Book of Psalms: The Complete Psalter As Rendered by Twenty-Five Poets from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (reference)

• American Blacksmithing and the Twentieth Century Toolsmith and Steelworker (reference)

• Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (Politics in Asia) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Twentieth Century Fine Art Including Drawings Prints And Photographs (reference)

• Twentieth Century Fund Annual Report (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Twentieth Century Fox - The Blockbuster Years (reference)

• Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century: Great Forensic Cases (reference)

• Twentieth Century With Mike Wallace : Against All Odds/ Six Day War/ Entebbe (reference)

• Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century: The Basement & Trunk Murderers (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (reference)

• Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward (reference)

• Nightshade Rounds Twentieth Century Works for Guitar (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Diagram of wiredrag operations ca. 1980 Basically the same system as devised in the early Twentieth Century. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Map of Antarctica - early Twentieth Century map from the National Geographic Society. Shows track of Admiral Richard Byrd's flight track to the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Figure 43. Bergius pneumatic sounder. No documentation could be found for the design, construction, or testing of this instrument. It is probable that this instrument was created in the early Twentieth Century by Friedrich Bergius, a 1931 Nobel Prize winner, for study of high pressure chemical reactions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 57. Kohler mounting and messenger system. This system was commercialized by Fritz Kohler at about the beginning of the Twentieth Century. However, its simplicity and fragility caused it to be little used. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Entrance foyer, first floor, from south. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, June 1984. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARK,26-HOSP,1-D-17) Praised by its original owner as "the most practical, complete, and luxurious bathhouse in the world," the Fordyce Bathhouse in Hot Springs stands today as a reminder of the international health-spa craze of the first half of the twentieth century. People from all over the world flocked to the Fordyce and the other bathhouses on "Bathhouse Row" in Hot Springs in the hope that the many natural springs in the area would help cure their illnesses. Visitors at the Fordyce bought their bath tickets in this foyer before proceeding to the dressing rooms and then to the baths. Today, the Fordyce Bathhouse is the Visitor Center at Hot Springs National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century photograph of an artwork titled "U.S. Frigate Congress 1842". Credit: NAVY.

New York City - opening day at Lord & Taylor's store, Broadway and Twentieth Street - ladies ascending in the elevator / Hyde. Credit: Library of Congress.

Destruction of the depots, public buildings, and manufactories at Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1864 The Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps moving out of Atlanta, November 15, 1864. Credit: Library of Congress.

Twentieth St., Birmingham, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Twentieth Annual Convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Chicago, Ill., Sept. [...]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The right to vote shall be given to all persons, without distinction of sex, who: (a) Have completed their twentieth year at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty; and (b) Were born in the zone in which the plebiscite is taken, or have been domiciled there since a date before January 1, 1900, or had been expelled by the German authorities without having retained their domicile there. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy.

Tom set the twentieth box down.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

In the twentieth century, 10,000 people either died, were wounded or were missing as a result of landslides and floods; and thousands of homes and roads were destroyed. (references)

Economic History

Thailand

There are four basic codes: Civil and Commercial Code, Criminal Code, Civil Procedure Code, and Criminal Procedure Code . In adopting these codes early in the twentieth century, Thailand selected features of the two major western legal systems (common law and civil law), and adapted to circumstances in Thailand provisions drawn from Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Japan, Italy, India, and other foreign systems . Decisions and rulings of the judiciary and civil service can have considerable force as precedents. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

Since the NAFTA was implemented in 1994, two-way trade between the United States and Mexico has grown from $106.5 billion to $275.2 billion in 2000. The rapid growth in two-way trade has been remarkable given that Mexico's economy is about a twentieth of the size of the U.S. economy. (references)

Trade

Australia

After shielding its industry for most of the twentieth century behind a wall of tariff protection, Australia began reducing some of its tariffs in the early 1970s, followed in the mid-1980s by an economy-wide program of tariff reductions in the most protected industries including automobiles and textiles. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "twentieth": twentieth Amendment ♦ twentieth century. Additional references.

Beginning with "twentieth": twentieth-centuries, twentieth-century.

Ending with "twentieth": late-twentieth, mid-twentieth, one-twentieth.

Containing "twentieth": early-twentieth-century, mid-twentieth-century, pre-twentieth-century.

Albanian

një e njëzet, i njëzet. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مؤلف جزءا من عشرين, ‏العشرون. (various references)

Asturian

ventenu. (various references)

Bemba

icamakumi yabili. (various references)

Bulgarian 

двадесети. (various references)

Cebuano

ikakawhaan. (various references)

Chinese 

第二十 . (various references)

Cornish

ügansves. (various references)

Czech

dvacetina, dvacátý. (various references)

Danish

tyvende. (various references)

Dutch

twintigste. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ishcai chuncaniqui. (various references)

Esperanto

dudeka. (various references)

Faeroese

tjúgundi. (various references)

Farsi 

یک بیستم , بیستمین , بیستم . (various references)

Finnish

kahdeskymmenesosa, kahdeskymmenes. (various references)

French

vingtième. (various references)

Frisian

tweintichste. (various references)

German

zwanzigste, zwanzigsten. (various references)

Greek 

εικοστόσ (vigesimal). (various references)

Hungarian

huszadrész. (various references)

Italian

ventesimo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

二十日 (twenty days), 廿日 (twenty days). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はつか (twenty days). (various references)

Kongo

wa makumole. (various references)

Korean 

스무째. (various references)

Macedonian

dvanaesetti. (various references)

Manx

yn feedoo. (various references)

Maori

tuarua tekau. (various references)

Pig Latin

entiethtway

Portuguese

vigésimo (vigesimal). (various references)

Provencal

vinten. (various references)

Romanian

douãzecime, douãzecilea, douãzeci (score, twenty), douãzecea parte. (various references)

Romany

bishtò. (various references)

Ruanda

wamirongo ibiri. (various references)

Russian 

двадцатый. (various references)

Samoan

lona luasefulu. (various references)

Scottish

ficheadamh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dvadesetina, dvadeseti. (various references)

Sicilian

vintesimu. (various references)

Spanish

vigésimo. (various references)

Swedish

tjugonde. (various references)

Turkish

yirminci, yirmide bir. (various references)

Turkmen 

яigriminji. (various references)

Ukrainian

двадцята частина, двадцятий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thứ hai mươi, vật thứ hai mươi, ng� y hai mươi, một phần hai mươi người thứ hai mươi. (various references)

Welsh

ugeinfed. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "twentieth": twentieths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twentieth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trengirth, twenteth, twentie, twentith, twentyish, twentyth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: tentie, theine, whiten.

-4 letters: newie, teeth, tenet, tenth, thein, thine, tithe, tween, tweet, twine, wheen, whine, white, withe.

-5 letters: hent, hewn, hint, nett, newt, nite, teen, tent, teth, thee, then, thew, thin, tine, tint, twee, twin, twit, ween, weet, went, whee, when, whet, whin, whit, wine, wite, with.

+1 letter: twentieths.

+5 letters: watertightness.