twentieth
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4ADJ.
all, celebrated, half, last, lost, pregnant
VERB + TWENTIETH
beginning, born, celebrate, celebrating, end, minds
TWENTIETH + NOUN
anniversary, birthday, century, olivier, pregnancy, week
PREP.
in, until
Definitions
adj
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.
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
noun
A person or thing in the twentieth position.
One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
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.
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6As 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 1
WiktionaryThe novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not
Wiktionary“A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.
WiktionaryThere 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
WiktionaryBriefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.
Tatoeba · #20963There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.
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