Twelfth
noun
The position or placement that comes after the eleventh.
She finished the race in twelfth place.
noun
One of twelve equal parts of something.
The income was divided into twelfths and distributed among the siblings.
adjective
Being one in a series of twelve.
It was the twelfth day of June.
noun
The position or placement that comes after the eleventh.
She finished the race in twelfth place.
noun
One of twelve equal parts of something.
The income was divided into twelfths and distributed among the siblings.
adjective
Being one in a series of twelve.
It was the twelfth day of June.
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Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used when ordering things in a sequence, especially with dates or positions.
December is the twelfth month of the year.
Pro Tip 2/3Sports and Competitions
Commonly used in sports or contests to indicate a competitor's ranking.
After the final scores, our team stood at twelfth.
Pro Tip 3/3Scale Positions
Can be associated with ranking systems, like in class or on a list.
He was twelfth on the bestsellers list.
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Noorvik PIPE Camp Tours
I've been without water okay when he came along they're all pretty happy that this is our school this is where children go from kindergarten to twelfth grade and a lot of different opportunities that they have in here and they get to so and they get to learn all
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The myth of Hercules: 12...
Atlas eagerly complied, but Hercules then tricked him into trading places again, escaping with apples in hand. The twelfth and final task was to bring back Cerberus, the three-headed hound guarding the underworld.
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12 sustainable design...
are not around to tell us about it. That's the twelfth one. Life -- and this is the secret trick; this is the magic trick -- life creates conditions conducive to life.
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Noorvik PIPE Camp Tours
I've been without water okay when he came along they're all pretty happy that this is our school this is where children go from kindergarten to twelfth grade and a lot of different opportunities that they have in here and they get to so and they get to learn all
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The myth of Hercules: 12...
Atlas eagerly complied, but Hercules then tricked him into trading places again, escaping with apples in hand. The twelfth and final task was to bring back Cerberus, the three-headed hound guarding the underworld.
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12 sustainable design...
are not around to tell us about it. That's the twelfth one. Life -- and this is the secret trick; this is the magic trick -- life creates conditions conducive to life.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
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Owen Hart
Canadian Wrestler
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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James Redfield
American Author
One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.
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Ritesh Agarwal
Indian Businessman
Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.
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Amy Sherald
American Artist
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
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Bill Lawrence
American Producer
I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
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Jay-Z
American Musician
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
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Julie Payette
Canadian Politician
I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
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Owen Hart
Canadian Wrestler
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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James Redfield
American Author
One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.
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Ritesh Agarwal
Indian Businessman
Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.
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Amy Sherald
American Artist
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
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Bill Lawrence
American Producer
I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
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Jay-Z
American Musician
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
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Julie Payette
Canadian Politician
I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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