1. hundred-and-twentieth

adjective. the ordinal number of one hundred twenty in counting order.

Rhymes with Twentieth Century

• penitentiary
• midcentury

Sentences with twentieth-century

1. Noun Phrase
Diego Rivera is likely the most famous Mexican painter/muralist of the twentieth century.

2. Noun Phrase
Others write that it began "decades ago," or "in the early twentieth century."

3. Noun Phrase
Jean Piaget was an influential psychologist of the twentieth century.

2. quarter-century

noun. a period of 25 years.

3. half-century

noun. a period of 50 years.

4. twentieth

adjective. ['ˈtwɛntiːˌɛθ, ˈtwɛnˌtiːɛθ'] coming next after the nineteenth in position.

5. twentieth

noun. ['ˈtwɛntiːˌɛθ, ˈtwɛnˌtiːɛθ'] position 20 in a countable series of things.

6. century

noun. ['ˈsɛntʃɝi'] a period of 100 years.

7. century

noun. ['ˈsɛntʃɝi'] ten 10s.