twentieth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. isim A person or thing in the twentieth position.
3. isim 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.”