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twentyfold

[adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-]
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adjective
  1. having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  2. being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.
adverb
  1. twenty times in amount or degree.

Origin of twentyfold

First recorded in 1600–10; twenty + -fold
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Historical Examples

  • The guards, both crimson and blue, formed a twenty-fold cordon.

    The Blind Spot

    Austin Hall

  • Accurate measurements have shown that the axis of a glacier may move ten- or twenty-fold more rapidly than its margins.

  • The effect produced by the Colony Garden, or public grounds, was such as twenty-fold to return the cost and labour bestowed on it.

    The Crater

    James Fenimore Cooper

  • The permanent population is about twenty thousand, swollen in summer often fifteen- or twenty-fold.

  • Town lots sold in a most remarkable manner, many valuable corners increasing in value ten and twenty-fold in a single night.