23RD

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 23rd mean? 

• 23RD (adjective)
  The adjective 23RD has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the twenty-second in position

  Familiarity information: 23RD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 23RD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the twenty-second in position

Synonyms:

23rd; twenty-third

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day's difference—which is very odd.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On referring to my notebook for the year 1895, I find that it was upon Saturday, the 23rd of April, that we first heard of Miss Violet Smith.

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

On the 23rd he was going to a friend near Peterborough, in the same situation as himself, and they were to receive ordination in the course of the Christmas week.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On the 23rd you incommoded me; by the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you; at the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans; and now, at the close of April, I find myself placed in such a position through your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. The situation is becoming an impossible one.

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

Nearly ten weeks ago—to be more accurate, on the 23rd of May—he called me into his private room, and, after complimenting me on the good work which I had done, he informed me that he had a new commission of trust for me to execute.

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

On it was scribbled in pencil: £10 Reward.—The number of the cab which dropped a fare at or about the door of the Foreign Office in Charles Street at quarter to ten in the evening of May 23rd. Apply 221B, Baker Street.

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