twelfth
The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
Example
“The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.”
Related words
- twelfthly
- twelfth cake
- twelfth-day cake
- Twelfth Month
- Glorious Twelfth
- Twelfth
- Twelfth cake
- Twelfth Day
- Twelfth Night
- Twelfthtide
- twelfth grade
- twelfth grader
Word history
From Old English "twelfta".
Where this comes from
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