TWENTY-THIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-third mean? 

• TWENTY-THIRD (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-THIRD has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the twenty-second in position

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-THIRD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-THIRD (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 

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

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