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twenty-fifth

a. The ordinal form of the number twenty-five. n. 1 The person or thing in the twenty-fifth position. 2 One of twenty-five equal parts of a whole.

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twenty-fifth

adj. coming next after the twenty-fourth in position [syn: 25th]

Usage examples of "twenty-fifth".

So Nancy Floyd approached a pair of agents in her own Foreign Counter Intelligence Division on the twenty-fifth floor at 26 Federal Plaza.

Old Christmas revels at Belvidere, but determined that a headache and a touch of fever should claim no more of this fine new year, my twenty-fifth year of life and the third year of my profession of law.

Now, the twenty-fifth June for instance--last year, this was--I was here and the Dayak was out killing sharks.

The king of Prussia, being induced by a concurrence of motives to stop the progress of the Russians in Silesia, made his dispositions for retreating from Bohemia, and on the twenty-fifth day of July quitted the camp at Koningsgratz.

This would have been on the twenty-seventh of the month, but a misfortune happened to me on the twenty-fifth which makes me still shudder when I think of it, notwithstanding the years which have passed since then.

During the day of the twenty-fifth, a Friday, it became known that the German Foreign Office had wired the embassies and consulates in Poland, France and Britain requesting that German citizens be asked to leave by the quickest route.

Before his twenty-fifth birthday he has written: Ten books of lyrics, panegyrics, and pastorals, mostly in hexameters but also some hendeca-syllabics and many Sapphics, Alcaics.

When the bill received the royal assent, another act of the like nature passed against Barclay, Holmes, and nine other conspirators who had fled from justice, in case they should not surrender themselves on or before the twenty-fifth day of March next ensuing.

The Classicists and Romantics who hated it were unaware of the potential greatness of the twenty-fifth century.

The Green World dream was reported by Philippa Bruce on the twenty-fifth.

The image of the dancer was produced by the technology of the twenty-fifth century, but what was being offered to her eyes was a nineteenth-century vision of the first century before the conventional calendrical century count began.

Mark, whose feast fell on the twenty-fifth of the month, and whose protection as a Venetian I might justly claim.

The evening was, I sensed: for one thing, Calyxa announced then, at first augustly, that next day, the ninth since the sun's entry into Leo, was the twenty-fifth anniversary of her birth and the twentieth of another red-letter day on the calendar of her life, which she'd tell me about tomorrow.

A brief bare sorting out of the famous October twenty-fifth triple melee, which was spaced over six hundred sea miles, is this: In the southern bauk of Surigao Strait, the action took place in early morning darkness and lasted to the dawn, a smashing American victory in the northern battle off Luzon, Mitscher's air strikes went on all day against Ozawa's empty carriers and his supporting force.

From roughly their twenty-fifth anniversary on, the brouhahas never lasted for more than a few hours.