Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.
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Twentieth
/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
Synonyms for "twentieth" (9 found)
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More general
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11 entriesone twentieth fractionone twentieth parttwentieth chaptertwentieth pagetwentieth placetwentieth positiontwentieth ranktwentieth yeartwentieth-century architecturetwentieth-century paintingtwentieth-century philosophy
Collocations
8 entriesone twentiethtwentieth birthdaytwentieth centurytwentieth century literaturetwentieth century philosophytwentieth parttwentieth percentiletwentieth year
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 13 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- քսաներորդ noun (ordinal object)
Finnish
1 entries- kahdeskymmenes noun (ordinal object)
French
1 entries- vingtième noun (ordinal object)
Hindi
1 entries- बीसवाँ noun (ordinal object)
Hungarian
1 entries- huszadik noun (ordinal object)
Interlingua
4 entries- vigesima noun (ordinal object)
- vigesimo noun (ordinal object)
- vintesima noun (ordinal object)
- vintesimo noun (ordinal object)
Italian
2 entries- ventesima noun (ordinal object)
- ventesimo noun (ordinal object)
Macedonian
1 entries- дваесетка noun (ordinal object)
Manx
1 entries- yn feedoo noun (ordinal object)
Old English
1 entries- twēntigoþa noun (ordinal object)
Portuguese
2 entries- vigésima noun (ordinal object)
- vigésimo noun (ordinal object)
Spanish
4 entries- veinteno noun (ordinal object)
- veintésimo noun (ordinal object)
- vicésimo noun (ordinal object)
- vigésimo noun (ordinal object)
Turkish
1 entries- yirminci noun (ordinal object)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.
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In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
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We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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