20TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 20th mean? 

• 20TH (adjective)
  The adjective 20TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the nineteenth in position

  Familiarity information: 20TH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 20TH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the nineteenth in position

Synonyms:

20th; twentieth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

The model showed that the Pacific Ocean cooled over the course of the 20th century at depths of 1.8 to 2.6 kilometers.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At the beginning of the 20th century, its numbers exceeded 100,000.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

The Environment Ministry reports that about 2.9 million whales were killed worldwide in the 20th century, 71% of them in the Southern Hemisphere.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

This is the 20th consecutive year the annual average temperature exceeded the average.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

In the 20th century, Greenland has lost around 9,000 billion tons of ice in total, causing about 25 millimeters (1 inch) of sea level rise, according to National Geographic.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

A miscarriage is the loss of pregnancy from natural causes before the 20th week of pregnancy.

(Miscarriage, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

It's a sudden increase in blood pressure after the 20th week of pregnancy.

(High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The June globally-averaged land surface temperature was 2.27°F (1.26°C) above the 20th century average.

(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)

The globally-averaged land surface temperature was 2.97°F (1.65°C) above the 20th century average.

(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)

“Yes,” he continued, after some turning over of pages, “he was paid last on May 20th.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)