1. twentieth - Noun
2. twentieth - Adjective
3. twentieth - Adjective Satellite
Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.
Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.
The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.
The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.
Source: Webster's dictionary20th-century history The Limerick boycott was an economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community for over two years in the first decade of the twentieth century. Source: Internet
According to archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham, "the great country houses of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries were, in a social sense, the castles of their day". Source: Internet
According to Larry Ray "Critical Theory" has "become one of the most influential social theories of the twentieth century". Source: Internet
According to Anita Feferman, Tarski "changed the face of logic in the twentieth century". Source: Internet
Acceptance among physicists Throughout much of the twentieth century the Copenhagen interpretation had overwhelming acceptance among physicists. Source: Internet
Administrative law expanded greatly during the twentieth century, as legislative bodies worldwide created more government agencies to regulate the social, economic and political spheres of human interaction. Source: Internet