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20th

/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/

20th is the abbreviation of twentieth.

Meaning of twentieth

Adjective

twentieth (not comparable)

  1. The ordinal form of the number twenty.
    • As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.1980, Christopher C. Rand, “Introduction”, in The Wilderness (Yüan-yeh) 原野, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page viii

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Forms of 20th

alternative form20ᵗʰ

Phrases with 20th

Questions about 20th

What is 20th the abbreviation of?
20th is the abbreviation of twentieth.
How do you pronounce 20th?
20th is pronounced /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/.

Words near 20th in the dictionary

  1. 2080s
  2. 2090s
  3. 20K
  4. 20Ks
  5. 20s
  6. 20th
  7. 20ᵗʰ
  8. 21-gon
  9. 21-gons
  10. 2100s
  11. 2110s

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