twelfth
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
twelfth /twɛlfθ, twɛlθ/
▶ordinal number
- 1 constituting number twelve in a sequence; 12th.
- 2 (a twelfth/one twelfth) each of twelve equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
- 3 Music an interval or chord spanning an octave and a fifth in the diatonic scale, or a note separated from another by this interval.
- 4 (the (Glorious) Twelfth) (in the UK) 12 August, the day on which the grouse-shooting season begins.
– derivatives
twelfthly adverb,
twelvefold adjective & adverb.
twelfthly adverb,
twelvefold adjective & adverb.
'twelfth' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adar
- atomic mass unit
- December
- denier
- duodecimal
- duodecimo
- Elul
- house
- inch
- L
- Mahdi
- mu
- ounce
- penny
- pie
- Pisces
- quincunx
- relative atomic mass
- relative molecular mass
- semitone
- tiffany
- twelfth man
- Twelfth Night
- wassail

