Definition of Twentieth

Twentieth

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.

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Twentieth Quotations

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Rush Limbaugh

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich Fromm

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henri Bergson

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Norman Mailer

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
Carroll Quigley

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman Rushdie

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
E. L. Doctorow

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Robertson Davies

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
John McGahern

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
Karen Armstrong

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
John Charles Polanyi

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Rowan D. Williams

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
Michael Behe

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.
Helen Reddy

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Helen Dunmore

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Ron Silver

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
Simon Newcomb

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Twentieth Translations

twentieth in German is zwanzigsten, zwanzigste, zwanzigste
twentieth in Hungarian is huszadik
twentieth in Swedish is tjugonde

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