Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a tone distant three octaves from a given tone, or the interval between two such tones; a triple octave.
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- adjective The ordinal form of the number
twenty-two . - noun The person or thing in the twenty-second position.
- noun One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.
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- adjective coming next after the twenty-first in position
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Examples
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Who speculated about life in the twenty-second century, let alone the next millennium, before throwing groovy into the recycling bin?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Who speculated about life in the twenty-second century, let alone the next millennium, before throwing groovy into the recycling bin?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Will Global English-speakers of the twenty-second century require special training to read or listen to English as it was used before the arrival of the internet?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Will Global English-speakers of the twenty-second century require special training to read or listen to English as it was used before the arrival of the internet?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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A bit of home arrived in the small package I received around my twenty-second birthday.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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“Men,” he said, his voice rich with authority, “10: 16,76 and B paragraph 19 of the twenty-second edition.”
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It was their twenty-second anniversary, and they were out by themselves.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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He was on the twenty-second floor of Canapia Ltd., and had just watched the chickens pass through sliding glass doors which were marked: Canapia Laboratory.
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They ended up twenty-fifth and twenty-second respectively.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Then, on November twenty-second, our union, Local 25, voted for a general strike and shirtwaist workers all across the city walked out.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
hernesheir commented on the word twenty-second
A triple octave. In a musical scale 3x8=22. Try it on your piano.
January 3, 2013