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twenty
[ twen-tee, twuhn- ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
- a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Informal. a twenty-dollar bill:
Can you give me two tens for a twenty?
- twenties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 20 through 29, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:
He lives in the West Twenties. She's in her early twenties. The temperature must be in the high twenties today.
- Also 20. Slang. location; ten-twenty ( def ):
What’s your twenty?
adjective
- amounting to 20 in number.
twenty
/ ˈtwɛntɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number
- a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
determiner
- amounting to twenty
twenty questions
- ( as pronoun )
to order twenty
Word History and Origins
Origin of twenty1
Word History and Origins
Origin of twenty1
Example Sentences
Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
A friendly twenty-something woman originally from Toronto said it best.
By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.
Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
On four bells there are four times as many changes as on three; that is—four times six changes, which makes Twenty-four.
This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
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