1. twelfth - Noun
2. twelfth - Adjective
3. twelfth - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA 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!" M. R. James
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. Barbara Amiel
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. Herman Melville
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. Larry Watson
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. Thomas Hardy
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. Mary McCarthy