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twenty-fourth

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

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twenty-fourth

adj. coming next after the twenty-third in position [syn: 24th]

Usage examples of "twenty-fourth".

On the twenty-fourth, at a meeting in Amman to commemorate the first anniversary of the ACC, Saddam gave a long speech in which he said that as a result of the decline of the USSR, the Arab world needed to band together to oppose American and Israeli machinations.

So twenty-fourth century aliens in the Antares system would speak a colloquial Brooklynese, commanders of the Black Hole Explorer would long for their Ganymede Lady.

On the twenty-fourth floor, they turned along a corridor and followed it until Crozer stopped at a door near the end.

When the head sec man reached the open fire door to the twenty-fourth floor, he immediately started herding the norms behind him inside.

Less than two months later, and just after her own twenty-fourth birthday, Rosemary West gave birth to her third daughter and fourth child, whom the Wests christened Tara.

Romantics cried, unaware that the frontier of the mind had opened in a laboratory on Callisto at the turn of the twenty-fourth century.

The twenty-fourth century had not yet abolished God, but it had abolished organized religion.

Madeline had planned to arrive in El Cajon on October 3d, her brother's birthday, and she had succeeded, though her arrival occurred at the twenty-fourth hour.

McCoy, USMC, 1st Defense Battalion, Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to try him on charges that on the twenty-fourth day of December 1941, he had committed the offense of assault upon the person of a commissioned officer of the U.

As THE ELEVATOR CAR crept up to the twenty-fourth floor, stickies jammed the long hallway on either side of the shaft.

He had a blinding vision of the truth, a mental picture of one man using the tune energy, first to save his own life, then to prevent unnecessary war, finally to establish himself in the twenty-fourth century as the Grannis of the Shadows.

He rolled past City Hall Park the three-story brick pile of the Broom Hotel, with its eighteen odd, bulging windows: Another three-story building, at the corner of Twenty-fourth Street, had the wooden statue of a horse atop it, complete with a tail that streamed in the breeze.

After the crisply invigorating first weeks of October, it turned so cold that, on the night of the twenty-fourth, the icy blue and green draperies of the aurora borealis undulated eerily in the Paris sky, a sight never seen in the lifetime of the oldest citizens.

By the first decade of the twenty-fourth century the principles of jaunting were established and the first school was opened by Charles Fort Jaunte himself, then fifty-seven, immortalized, and ashamed to admit that he had never dared jaunte again.

Disregarding them, he walked boldly to the pneumatic levitators, ascended to the twenty-fourth floor.