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The ordinal form of the number twenty. quotations examples
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, page viii
plural twentieths
A person or thing in the twentieth position. examples
One of twenty equal parts of a whole. quotations examples
There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57