twenty
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: What’s your twenty?
amounting to 20 in number.
Origin of twenty
1Words Nearby twenty
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How to use twenty in a sentence
Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers | Stereo Williams | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTEven 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.
The Craziest Date Night for Single Jews, Where Mistletoe Is Ditched for Shots | Emily Shire | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy 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.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyBefore 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.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing | Richard Duckworth and Fabian StedmanThis 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.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for twenty
/ (ˈtwɛntɪ) /
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
amounting to twenty: twenty questions
(as pronoun): to order twenty
Origin of twenty
1Other words from twenty
- Related adjectives: vicenary, vigesimal
- Related prefix: icosa-
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