twelfth
Speech parts
1. twelfth - Noun
2. twelfth - Adjective
3. twelfth - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.
Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
The next in order after the eleventh.
An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
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Examples
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Judas was not a monster, though his act was monstrous; he was a man, the twelfth part of humanity, and his sin was that he could betray for thirty pieces of silver, like any common informer. Jesus was uncommon, not Judas.